en.Wedoany.com Reported - SpaceX plans to launch its first AI1 satellite (dubbed the "orbital data center") by the end of 2027. The company has completed its initial public offering (IPO) on the Nasdaq, selling 556 million shares at $135 per share, valuing the company at $1.77 trillion, setting a record for the largest IPO in Wall Street history.

Elon Musk, who is poised to become the world's first trillionaire thanks to this IPO, has highlighted SpaceX's ability to build data centers in space as a selling point to attract investors. The company believes that space is the optimal solution to meet the rapidly growing computing demands of artificial intelligence systems and has submitted plans to launch up to 1 million satellites to form a mega-constellation of data centers, though critics question the feasibility of such an endeavor.

In an interview with CNBC following the IPO, SpaceX Chief Operating Officer Gwynne Shotwell revealed the first details of the company's so-called space data center—the AI1 satellite. She stated that the first batch of AI1 units would be launched by the end of 2027, but before that, the company plans to deploy computing capabilities on its Starlink broadband and Starlink mobile satellites. "We want to make sure we understand the operations," Shotwell said. "We like to do some pilot testing and preliminary work before going live." SpaceX claims each AI1 vehicle can process an average of 120 kilowatts of computing power. The company plans to lease computing resources on the satellites, much like a terrestrial data center, and has recently signed major agreements with Anthropic and Google. In February, Musk merged SpaceX with his AI startup xAI (which operates the Grok chatbot).

Shotwell told CNBC that SpaceX "100 percent" sees itself as a competitor to neo-cloud providers, which offer AI data center space for major AI companies. She stated that SpaceX is an infrastructure company, building its own launch vehicles, launch sites, and simultaneously constructing terrestrial and future orbital data centers. SpaceX celebrated its IPO by launching a Falcon 9 rocket, sending a batch of 29 Starlink satellites into space.

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