China approves space computing initiative to build orbital AI data centers, competing with Musk's SpaceX
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Jowi Morales
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China has quietly approved the Space Computing Industry Innovation Center, a government-backed initiative to unite rocket manufacturers, satellite builders, semiconductor fabs, and AI companies to build a space-based computing network. The goal is to create grid-free orbiting satellite AI data centers, challenging Elon Musk's SpaceX and its planned AI1 satellite. The move was announced a week before Musk's AI1 reveal, signaling intensifying competition in space-based AI computing.
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This aims to 'connect the entire industrial chain of space computing and boost the development of the satellite Internet of Things (IoT) sector.'
China made this move a week before Elon Musk announced his AI1 satellite, which will run AI workloads while orbiting in space.
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