Founded in 2024 and headquartered in Redmond, Washington, Starcloud is developing data centres in orbit, aiming to supply AI compute infrastructure powered by continuous solar energy. The company has raised $200m to pursue space-based GPU clusters that it claims can cut electricity costs by 90% and reduce energy consumption by a factor of ten compared with terrestrial facilities, exploiting radiative cooling and uninterrupted sunlight.
In November 2025 the firm launched StarCloud-1, described as the world's first satellite carrying an NVIDIA H100 GPU. The mission successfully trained the first large language model in orbit, demonstrating what the company frames as a viable path to orbital compute at scale.
The technical team draws on experience from SpaceX, Airbus Defence and Space, Microsoft and leading universities, with co-founders holding advanced degrees from Wharton, Harvard and in materials engineering. The workforce includes personnel with more than 25 patents. Core engineering domains span space-based data centres, orbital compute clusters, space solar power and radiative cooling systems.
