The data centre that orbits Earth - Philip Johnston, Starcloud
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Philip Johnston discusses the launch of the first NVIDIA H100 GPU in space and the future of orbital data centres.
Starcloud launched the first NVIDIA H100 GPU in space and trained the first LLM in orbit. CEO Philip Johnston explains why AI's energy bottleneck leads to orbital data centres — with 10x lower energy costs and 5 gigawatts of solar-powered compute on the roadmap. A RAAIS 2026 speaker profile from Air Street Press.
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