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Report: Google and SpaceX in talks to put data centers into orbit
(techcrunch.com)
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this post was submitted on 13 May 2026
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More so these are not giant data centers they are just satellites acting as a data center. So perhaps larger than a typical communication satellite but nothing like a giant warehouse that we would have on the ground.