There aren’t enough rockets for space data centers. Cowboy Space raised $275 million to build them.
TechCrunch AI Tim Fernholz May 11, 2026

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# A New Space Data Center Plan Faces a Rocket Problem A company called Cowboy Space just raised $275 million to build data centers in orbit, but there's a catch: there aren't enough rockets available to launch them into space. So the company will have to design and build its own rockets first before it can even get its data centers off the ground.
Cowboy Space Corporation wants to put data centers in orbit. First, it has to build the rockets to get them there.
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