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Orbital Data Center Deployments
Market Data | 2Q 2026 | MD-SATODC-101
Get The ReportThe Orbital Data Center (ODC) market is emerging as a structurally distinct compute infrastructure category—estimated to reach up to 18,600 active satellites and 1.54 effective Gigawatts (GW) by 2035.
The ODC market is bifurcating into two distinct tiers: near-term edge and government compute at Kilowatt (kW)-scale (ADA Space, Kepler), and large orbital hyperscalers chasing AI inference at Megawatt (MW)-GW scale (SpaceX, Starcloud, Blue Origin Project Sunrise).
Commercial ODC services have already entered the market. MW-scale commercial Artificial Intelligence (AI) inference services remain a late 2020s to early 2030s proposition contingent on Starship cadence and solar technology maturity.
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