Data Centers Are Leaving the Planet. We Already Have a Spaceport.

Congratulations to Philip Johnston and the entire Starcloud team. 🚀

$170 million. $1.1 billion valuation. 17 months post-YC demo day. The fastest Y Combinator startup to ever reach unicorn status just put an NVIDIA H100 GPU into orbit — and trained the first AI model in space in history. Led by Benchmark and EQT Ventures. Backed by NVIDIA.

Let me say that again: there is now a functioning AI data center. In. Space.

I've spent 24 years in finance and 5 years in infrastructure. I've seen every cycle. Every boom. Every 'this changes everything' moment. This one actually does.

Here's the Part Nobody's Talking About

Starcloud exists because the ground is running out of room. Interconnection queues stretching 5+ years. States pulling back tax breaks. Mayors calling data centers a nuisance. Iran literally blowing up Amazon's data centers in the Gulf. When the smartest money in the world starts betting on orbit — that's not innovation. That's a signal that terrestrial infrastructure is at capacity.

The grid is full. The queue is long. The window to act is now.

We're Not Going to Space. We Already Have a Spaceport.

At Data Power Supply, we're not launching satellites. But this week we ARE launching our Powered Land Marketplace — and it solves the exact problem that's sending everyone else to orbit.

On-site power generation. Microgrids. BESS. Modular data centers ready to deploy. No utility queue. No 5-year interconnection wait. Real power. Fast.

Oh — and yes. One of the sites does have a spaceport available. We also have 16 teleports. Just in case Starcloud needs a ground station. 😂

Why This Matters for AI Buyers Right Now

Every hyperscaler, every crypto miner, every AI lab is chasing the same thing: power + connectivity + speed to deploy. The ones who lock in powered land now will control the infrastructure economics of the next decade. Those who wait will be begging utilities for scraps — or funding orbital data centers.

The Infrastructure Race Is Vertical Now

The companies that win this race won't be the most creative. They'll be the most prepared. Make sure your ground game is locked before you look up.

— Jimmy Hayes, Founder & CMO, Data Power Supply ⚡