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According to NVIDIA's blog of 15 October 2025, Starcloud plans to build a 5-gigawatt orbital data centre with solar and cooling panels about 4 kilometres in width and length. Copy claim link
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Date 2025-10-15 · announcement Figure measures not stated by the source Quantity exact · 5 GW (as worded: '5-gigawatt orbital data center') Scope and limits A plan relayed by NVIDIA, an investor-programme partner (NVIDIA Inception); no date, site or funding for the 5 GW system is stated. Nothing is built.
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How Starcloud Is Bringing Data Centers to Outer Space ↗ NVIDIA (blogs.nvidia.com) · 2025-10-15
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Source excerpt “Starcloud plans to build a 5-gigawatt orbital data center with super-large solar and cooling panels approximately 4 kilometers in width and length.” Location in source video caption under paragraph 2
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Source details and check notes Authors Angie Lee Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 548877a21cea33c94bed9905e91a2be84574be41a95f10dbc39d4033b546efc4). NVIDIA blog post as served on 2026-10-28; datePublished 2025-10-15 in the page metadata. Statements by Starcloud are relayed by NVIDIA. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 548877a21cea33c94bed9905e91a2be84574be41a95f10dbc39d4033b546efc4, the same bytes). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Angie Lee, “How Starcloud Is Bringing Data Centers to Outer Space”, 2025-10-15. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The quotation (22 words) matched the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 and again at admission on 2026-10-30, in a fresh retrieval whose SHA-256 equals the pack’s. Matching ignored differences of whitespace, case, quotation marks, dashes and Unicode compatibility forms, so the source’s typography can differ. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 113) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
Why we should train AI in space (White Paper v1.01) ↗ Lumen Orbit, Inc. (now Starcloud), via lumenorbit.github.io · 2024-09
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Paraphrase the white paper gives a 5 GW data centre a solar array of approximately 4 km by 4 km.
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Source details and check notes Authors Ezra Feilden; Adi Oltean; Philip Johnston Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 90e1bde5b01437d7778e044f8ed95df1c49a63559fc1e35177c94d6443e384f7). PDF v1.01 as served at lumenorbit.github.io/wp.pdf on 2026-10-28; cover line "White Paper v1.01, September 2024". Starcloud's current link (starcloud.com/wp) serves v1.03 (starcloudinc.github.io/wp.pdf), which adds a note that Lumen Orbit was renamed Starcloud in 2025; v1.01 is quoted here. The served file cannot authenticate when the v1.01 bytes were first published. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 90e1bde5b01437d7778e044f8ed95df1c49a63559fc1e35177c94d6443e384f7, the same bytes). The cross-family check (2026-10-30) opened the Internet Archive capture linked here and found it byte-identical to this retrieval; a capture shows only what the archive held on its date. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Archive copy Open archived copy, captured 2024-12-24: Why we should train AI in space (White Paper v1.01) ↗ . An archive copy shows only what the archive retrieved on 2024-12-24. It does not prove what the page said earlier, and it can differ from the copy checked on 2026-10-28.Attribution Ezra Feilden, Adi Oltean, Philip Johnston, “Why we should train AI in space (White Paper v1.01)”, 2024-09. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. The cross-family check found it faithful. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 113) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. primary source Context only
How Starcloud Is Bringing Data Centers to Outer Space ↗ NVIDIA (blogs.nvidia.com) · 2025-10-15
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Paraphrase NVIDIA describes Starcloud as an NVIDIA Inception startup.
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Source details and check notes Authors Angie Lee Version Retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28 (SHA-256 548877a21cea33c94bed9905e91a2be84574be41a95f10dbc39d4033b546efc4). NVIDIA blog post as served on 2026-10-28; datePublished 2025-10-15 in the page metadata. Statements by Starcloud are relayed by NVIDIA. Retrieved again at admission on 2026-10-30 (SHA-256 548877a21cea33c94bed9905e91a2be84574be41a95f10dbc39d4033b546efc4, the same bytes). Its wording can change; earlier wording is not authenticated. Canonical address Open the canonical source ↗ Accessed 2026-10-28 Language English (en) Attribution Angie Lee, “How Starcloud Is Bringing Data Centers to Outer Space”, 2025-10-15. Reuse No open redistribution licence asserted. Bibliographic metadata, editorial paraphrases and short attributed quotations (at most 50 words each). Recheck terms before wider redistribution. Check notes Candidate pack passage, compute, power and orbit (research/compute-power-orbit). The paraphrase is Selekoa’s, written from the text retrieved for the candidate pack on 2026-10-28; it is not a quotation and was not machine-matched. The cross-family check found it faithful. A cross-family machine check (2026-10-29/30, item 113) answered the record’s question blind from fresh retrievals and agreed with the record. No human editorial review. Status and meaning Editorial status. Not reviewed by an editor . An exploratory record that no editor has accepted. This status does not say whether a person has read any linked passage. Each evidence record above shows how it was checked.
Relation. A party announced a plan, programme or intention, dated by the announcement. A plan is not an action, a contract or spending.
Date. Date of the NVIDIA post relaying the plan; the white paper of September 2024 already describes a 5 GW design.
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