NeevCloud and Agnikul Cosmos Unveil Plans for Space-based Data Centers

India's space tech company Agnikul Cosmos and AI cloud provider NeevCloud are planning to launch data centers in space. The latest of numerous companies to have expressed a desire to bring compute to space, the two have signed an agreement that will see a data center launched in orbit by the end of 2026.

Agnikul's founder and CEO, Srinath Ravichandran, said of its technology: "Our convertible upper-stage technology lets these stages stay active and functional, turning them into usable assets that can host hardware and software in space, including compute or data capabilities. That's the next step for a space transportation company: you build, launch, recover, and then extend into orbit."

"We are not just building a data center in space, we are building an entirely new layer of orbital inferencing infrastructure," added Narendra Sen, founder and CEO of NeevCloud.