Aetherflux, a Bay Area-based space startup, is expanding to Seattle to open what it calls a “core center for satellite development.” In a post on LinkedIn last week, Aetherflux said its team is growing and the company is currently hiring across all disciplines, from engineering to operations. Founded in 2024 by CEO Baiju Bhatt, the billionaire co-founder of the trading platform Robinhood, Aetherflux is currently focused on creating an orbital data center satellite. The company says the goal is for its constellation of satellites — which it calls “Galactic Brain” — to leverage solar power in space to address the massive energy needs on Earth for artificial intelligence. The first data center node for commercial use is targeted for launch in 2027. “The race for artificial general intelligence is fundamentally a race for compute capacity, and by extension, energy. The elephant in the room is that our current energy plans simply won’t get us there fast enough,” Bhatt said in December. “Galactic Brain puts the sunlight next to the silicon and skips the power grid entirely.”

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