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# Aetherflux

## Canonical reference

**Aetherflux** — U.S. space-tech startup founded and led by [[entity-baiju-bhatt]]. Some sources also refer to a related corporate vehicle as **Cowboy Space Corporation**. Focused on **space-based solar power** and **orbital AI data centers**.

## Core architecture

- **Galactic Brain:** a network of orbital data-center satellites hosting processors powered by continuous solar energy in space.
- **Proprietary laser systems** to beam data between Earth and orbital GPUs.
- Tagline: *"puts the sunlight next to the silicon and skips the power grid entirely."*

Full architectural discussion: [[concept-space-data-centers]].

## Thesis

- Energy access is the binding constraint on AI scaling — see [[claim-ai-energy-bottleneck]].
- Sun-synchronous orbits provide near-continuous solar — see [[claim-space-solar-viability]].
- Compute in orbit; send only processed bits down via optical links.

## External coverage

- Payload Space, JLL, Sener, and Wikipedia's *space-based data centers* entry all cite Aetherflux as one of the operative players in orbital AI infrastructure (alongside Starcloud, Lonestar, Axiom Space, and adjacent efforts from Blue Origin, SpaceX, Google's *Project Suncatcher*, Nvidia, OpenAI).
- JLL frames orbital data centers as **complementary** to terrestrial — specialized for asynchronous, energy-heavy workloads.

## Open question

Economic viability at scale: [[question-space-data-economics]].