SpaceX and StarCloud Achieve Milestone with World’s First Solar-Powered Data Center in Space
Washington: Pakistan’s Minister for Crypto, Bilal bin Saqib, has hailed a groundbreaking achievement by Elon Musk’s SpaceX, which successfully launched the world’s first-ever solar-powered data center into space — a development experts are calling a technological revolution.
According to Bilal bin Saqib, the feat was accomplished by the innovative startup *StarCloud*, which proposed an unprecedented idea: instead of cooling energy-intensive data centers on Earth, why not build them directly in space?
Initially dismissed as impractical, the concept became reality when StarCloud deployed an NVIDIA H100 GPU into low Earth orbit — approximately 500 kilometers above Earth — marking the creation of the world’s first data center GPU in space.
The project aims to develop space-based data centers that operate entirely on solar energy, eliminating the need to transfer power from Earth. These orbiting centers will continuously harness sunlight as they circle the planet.
Remarkably, what typically takes five to seven years of planning and testing was accomplished by StarCloud in just **21 months and 2 days**. Experts predict this breakthrough could spark a trillion-dollar industry in space-based data centers in the near future.
