{"id":494644,"date":"2026-06-25T09:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/494644\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:40:15","slug":"spacex-starship-seen-as-key-to-ai-data-centers-in-orbit-andreessen-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/494644\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Starship Seen as Key to AI Data Centers in Orbit, Andreessen Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Andreessen Horowitz LLC General Partner David George, an investor in SpaceX, said the \u201crapid reusability\u201d of the new Starship rocket will be crucial to delivering on Elon Musk\u2019s bet on orbital data centers to expand AI computing capacity.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ArticleBodyText_articleBodyContent__17wqE typography_articleBody___5jDr\" data-component=\"paragraph\">Pushing those capabilities into space is inevitable once Starship is in service, George said Wednesday in a Bloomberg Television interview, because terrestrial AI data center capacity is becoming increasingly constrained. He offered a new way to think about these future satellites: \u201cairplane-sized GPU racks in space.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Andreessen Horowitz LLC General Partner David George, an investor in SpaceX, said the \u201crapid reusability\u201d of the new&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":494645,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[247638,363,247637,1951,19982,1702,247639,220,5472,111,139,69,29256,147,392,247636,145],"class_list":["post-494644","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-andreessen-horowitz-llc","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-david-george","tag-economics","tag-elon-reeve-musk","tag-infrastructure","tag-marc-lowell-andreessen","tag-markets","tag-mergers","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-russell-2000-index","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-exploration-techn-cl-a","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494644","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494644"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494644\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/494645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494644"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494644"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494644"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}