SpaceX Files StarMind Patent for Orbital Data Center on June 22

According to Lee Jae-gwang, a senior analyst at LS Securities, SpaceX filed a patent for StarMind, a space-based data center trademark, on June 22. The system deploys GPUs and TPUs on orbital satellites to overcome space and power constraints of ground-based facilities, leveraging continuous solar power and natural cooling via radiation for cost advantages.

SpaceX secured the 1-gigawatt Colossus data center through its xAI merger, backed by rental contracts: Anthropic signed a $15 billion annual deal in May, and Google signed $11 billion annually in June. The reusable Starship rocket is critical to deploying this infrastructure; the V4 version requires approximately 100 launches (estimated $2 billion in costs) to establish a 1-gigawatt orbital data center, compared to 200 launches for the current V3 iteration.