SpaceX Eyes Orbital AI: Starmind Data Centers to Bypass Earth's Grid
SEARCH TERM INTEREST TRAJECTORY -------------------------- ---------- ---------------------- ChatGPT / OpenAI 67.0 ███████░░░ Gemini / Google 36.0 ████░░░░░░ Claude / Anthropic 14.0 █░░░░░░░░░ DeepSeek 2.0 ░░░░░░░░░░ Perplexity 1.0 ░░░░░░░░░░ ChatGPT continues to dominate search volume, maintaining a comfortable lead over Gemini, while newer entrants remain barely visible in broad market interest. The AI Frontier: The deployment landscape is shifting rapidly from theoretical capability to physical and agentic infrastructure. SpaceX’s filing for Starmind orbital data centers, weighing 4,000 kg each, suggests a push to move processing off-planet, potentially bypassing terrestrial power constraints. Concurrently, the White House is pressing leading AI companies to independently power their data centers, signaling growing concern over grid capacity. On the model front, xAI has...