Agnikul to launch AI data center prototype in orbit by year-end, aims for 2027 commercialization

• Chennai-based Agnikul Cosmos plans to launch an AI data center prototype in orbit by the end of this year, targeting commercial viability by 2027.
• The prototype, developed by NeevCloud, will be hosted on the extendable upper stage of rockets and used for AI inference, requiring less energy than model training.
• Space offers advantages like unlimited solar energy, efficient cooling due to near-absolute zero temperatures, and enhanced physical security for data confidentiality.
• The system will involve a constellation of satellites in low Earth orbit, each hosting data center modules, communicating intra-satellite and satellite-to-ground.
• Satellites will operate in low-power mode during Earth's shadow (eclipse phase) and switch to high-power during sun-facing periods, utilizing radiative cooling.