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Nvidia Joins $250M Funding Round for Orbital Data Center Constellation
Nvidia has joined Starcloud's $250 million funding round to accelerate its plans for an orbital data center constellation.
The investment, led by Manhattan West, brings total capital raised since Starcloud was founded in 2024 to $450 million and doubles its valuation to $2.3 billion.
Starcloud aims to deploy a three-ton, 200-kilowatt-class spacecraft called Starcloud-3 to support AI inference and training workloads uplinked from Earth.
The company's first satellite, the 60-kilogram Starcloud-1, was launched in November using SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket and featured Nvidia's H100 graphics processing unit.