{"id":1000997,"date":"2026-04-04T07:52:37","date_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:22:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1000997"},"modified":"2026-04-04T08:01:36","modified_gmt":"2026-04-04T02:31:36","slug":"spacexs-orbital-data-centers-could-face-same-hurdles-as-microsofts-abandoned-undersea-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/04\/04\/spacexs-orbital-data-centers-could-face-same-hurdles-as-microsofts-abandoned-undersea-project\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX&#8217;s orbital data centers could face same hurdles as Microsoft&#8217;s abandoned undersea project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: SpaceX on Wednesday filed for an IPO that Elon Musk says will bankroll an effort to turn the rocket maker into an AI powerhouse, launching up to 1 million data\u2011center satellites into orbit to bypass power and water limits on Earth. <\/p>\n<p>Microsoft had a similar ambition to escape land\u2011based computing constraints in 2015, when it lowered a shipping\u2011container\u2011sized data center onto the seabed off Scotland, aiming to cut energy use through natural seawater cooling and tapping offshore wind and tidal power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOS ANGELES: SpaceX on Wednesday filed for an IPO that Elon Musk says will bankroll an effort to turn the rocket maker into an AI powerhouse, launching up to 1 million data\u2011center satellites into orbit to bypass power and water limits on Earth. Microsoft had a similar ambition to escape land\u2011based computing constraints in 2015, when it lowered a shipping\u2011container\u2011sized data center onto the seabed off Scotland, aiming to cut energy use through natural seawater cooling and tapping offshore wind and tidal power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1000997","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000997","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1000997"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1000997\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1000997"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1000997"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1000997"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}