Robinhood Co-Founder Baiju Bhatt Plans Orbital AI Data Centers

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Bhatt’s Cowboy Space aims to build solar-powered, reusable-rocket orbital data centers to run GPUs, raising $275M to overcome Earth-based energy and land limits and sell space-based AI compute.

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What stands out

Baiju Bhatt, the co-founder of Robinhood, laid out an audacious plan: build rockets that become orbital data centers, powered by solar arrays and reusable launchers, and sell GPU compute from space. His Cowboy Space venture (formerly Ethos Flux) has raised $275 million to try to dodge terrestrial constraints on power, land, and permitting. The idea matters because it shows where entrepreneurial attention and capital are flowing as AI creates insatiable infrastructure demand, and because a fintech founder pivoting to space highlights how big-picture technology bottlenecks can re-route talent and money for years.