{"id":88116,"date":"2026-04-05T14:43:42","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:43:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/are-orbital-data-centers-all-hype-or-an-actual-ai-infrastructure-solution-l-equity-podcast\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T14:43:42","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T14:43:42","slug":"are-orbital-data-centers-all-hype-or-an-actual-ai-infrastructure-solution-l-equity-podcast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/are-orbital-data-centers-all-hype-or-an-actual-ai-infrastructure-solution-l-equity-podcast\/","title":{"rendered":"Are orbital data centers all hype, or an actual AI infrastructure solution? l Equity Podcast"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tech companies are racing to build data centers in space, pitching orbital compute as the next frontier for AI infrastructure, <!--more--> even as the technical and economic realities remain far from clear. Add in OpenAI\u2019s massive $122 billion round and Bluesky\u2019s latest AI backlash, and the message is clear: The future of AI is being shaped as much by ambition and hype as it is by real-world constraints. <\/p>\n<p>On this episode of TechCrunch\u2019s Equity podcast, Kirsten Korosec, Anthony Ha, and Sean O\u2019Kane unpack these massive capital bets, user backlash, and off-world compute plans along with Whoop\u2019s major valuation and the literal downfall of robot Olaf.  <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to Equity on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, Overcast, Spotify, and all the casts. You also can follow Equity on X and Threads, at @EquityPod. <\/p>\n<p>Chapters:<br \/>\n00:00 Intro<br \/>\n00:20 A humanoid Olaf robot collapses at Disneyland Paris<br \/>\n03:30 OpenAI raises $122B at an $852B valuation<br \/>\n11:30 Whoop lands $575M and bets big on wearable data<br \/>\n18:50 The risks (and value) of personal health data<br \/>\n23:00 Bluesky\u2019s AI feed builder sparks backlash<br \/>\n30:00 Can Bluesky keep growing \u2014 and compete with X?<br \/>\n36:30 The race to build data centers in space<br \/>\n44:30 SpaceX, Starlink, and the business of orbital compute<br \/>\n49:30 Outro<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tech companies are racing to build data centers in space, pitching orbital compute as the next frontier for AI infrastructure,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":88132,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-88116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88116","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88116"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88116\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88116"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88116"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nicheblog.top\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88116"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}