Cowboy Space 推出专用数据中心火箭，探索太空计算基础设施
The New Space Race: Startups Press Ahead on ‘Orbital Infrastructure,’ Test Feasibility of Data Centers
Cowboy Space 推出可携带五架 NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPU 机柜的专用数据中心火箭，并计划以“Big Iron Express”品牌与 SpaceX 竞争发射服务，目标是使太空计算成本与地面计算持平。该公司由 Robinhood 联合创始人 Baiju Bhatt 领导，并获 Index Ventures 等投资。
Space data centers, once confined to sci-fi novels and ambitious pitch decks, are beginning to get real.
A SpaceX rocket earlier this month carried an experimental Google satellite that will make simple requests to Gemini while researchers test how its four TPUs hold up in space. The same launch carried the Reason-1 satellite from startup Cowboy Space, which is experimenting with beaming solar power back to Earth with a laser.
Cowboy Space, led by Robinhood cofounder Baiju Bhatt and backed by Jan Hammer at Index Ventures, among others, this week unveiled an even bigger swing: its own purpose-built data center rocket that can carry five racks of NVIDIA Vera Rubin GPUs into orbit. The startup also plans to use this rocket to compete with SpaceX in selling launch services to others under the name “Big Iron Express.”
Bhatt told Newcomer that his company’s “north star” is to make space compute cost-competitive with terrestrial compute, and that it’s vertically integrating to the extreme to achieve that end. Another well-funded player is Starcloud, backed by Benchmark and currently valued at $2.3 billion.
来源: Newcomer · newcomer.co