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Starcloud adds US$250 million to expand its space AI data-centre plan

2026-08-24

Starcloud adds US$250 million to expand its space AI data-centre plan
Photo: FritzchensFritz (CC BY 2.0)

Starcloud announced a US$250 million extension to its March Series A at a US$2.3 billion valuation on August 21, 2026. Manhattan West led, with NVIDIA, Cisco Investments, Benchmark, EQT and others taking part. The company is building satellites for AI inference in orbit and for the NVIDIA Space-1 Vera Rubin module.

Space-based compute targets more solar energy and less strain on Earth's energy supply, but launch, radiation, cooling, servicing and communications remain hard problems.

The funding and valuation appear in both the company announcement and independent reporting. Deployment scale, cost parity and the launch schedule are forward-looking claims; this is development-stage infrastructure.

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