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There aren't enough rockets for space data centers
Cowboy Space Corporation, founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, raised $275 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation to build its own rockets for deploying data centers in orbit to meet surging AI compute demand. The company pivoted from its original space solar energy concept and plans to integrate data centers directly into rocket second stages, with a first launch targeted before the end of 2028.
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Summary
Cowboy Space Corporation, founded by Robinhood co-founder Baiju Bhatt, raised $275 million in Series B funding at a $2 billion valuation to build its own rockets for deploying data centers in orbit to meet surging AI compute demand. The company pivoted from its original space solar energy concept and plans to integrate data centers directly into rocket second stages, with a first launch targeted before the end of 2028.
Tags
space-data-centers · ai-compute · rocket-development · cowboy-space-corporation · orbital-computing · series-b-funding · spacex
Key entities
Baiju Bhatt (person, 0.99) · Cowboy Space Corporation (organization, 0.99) · SpaceX (organization, 0.97) · Index Ventures (organization, 0.95) · Blue Origin (organization, 0.95) · Breakthrough Energy Ventures (organization, 0.93) · Google Suncatcher (organization, 0.85) · Robinhood (organization, 0.9) · Starcloud (organization, 0.85) · Andreessen Horowitz (organization, 0.9) · space-based data centers (concept, 0.98) · AI compute demand (concept, 0.95) · Starship (technology, 0.93) · New Glenn (technology, 0.9) · Rocket Lab (organization, 0.88) · Arianespace (organization, 0.85) · SAIC (organization, 0.85) · Series B funding round (event, 0.95)
Classification
analysis · language en · status final
Provenance
claude-opus-4-6 via @stacklist/mcp-server@2.0.0, confidence 0.85, 26 May 2026