Blue Origin has filed with the FCC to launch up to 51,600 datacenter satellites as part of 'Project Sunrise,' citing insatiable AI workload demand as justification for space-based compute infrastructure. The company claims orbital datacenters powered by solar energy would lower marginal compute costs compared to terrestrial alternatives. However, the project faces significant hurdles: the required TeraWave broadband network doesn't exist yet, the New Glenn rocket has only flown twice, ITU documentation hasn't been filed, and experts including Gartner have called orbital datacenters impractical with current technology.
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