capacity

Enterprise

Increase in Astronaut Launch Quantity Anticipated at Second Florida Pad Established by SpaceX

SpaceX has performed 13 crewed missions, and all of them launched from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. But the company has long intended to upgrade a second pad — SLC-40 at the neighboring Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — to expand its crew launch capacity. Teams test the new emergency chutes from the pad 40 crew tower in Florida pic.twitter.com/rWVj7zaHp0 — SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 19, 2024As a next step, SpaceX is going to launch the CRS-30 cargo resupply mission. In a media teleconference in February, SpaceX’s VP of build and flight reliability, Bill Gerstenmaier, said the cargo flight is an incremental step to astronaut launches. “We would like to do a cargo flight first if we can.

Ava Patel
March 20, 2024

Enterprise

“NodeShift Takes on Hyperscalers with Revolutionary Decentralized Cloud Solution”

When the large cloud providers have excess compute capacity, they tend to discount it through programs like AWS’s and Azure’s spot instances. While in the recovery room, Surkov shared his idea for a company that would make this excess data center capacity available to developers. Because of his experience with networking at Cisco and decentralized systems in crypto, Surkov had become interested in why there is so much friction in using decentralized compute. In addition to these decentralized projects, NodeShift has also set up deals with independent data center operators. Just on the data center side, the company says, it currently has access to about 400,000 CPUs and 28 million terabytes of storage.

Zara Khan
February 21, 2024

Crypto, Robotics & AI

Arkon Energy Secures $110M Investment for Expanding U.S. Bitcoin Mining Capacity and Introducing AI Cloud Service in Norway

Arkon Energy, a data center infrastructure company, closed a $110 million private funding round to expand its operations, the company’s CEO Josh Payne shared exclusively with TechCrunch. “These sites appeal to both bitcoin miners and AI [or] machine learning clients who have very high power computing demands,” Payne said. “We are essentially a landlord who owns the underlying infrastructure assets.”Arkon’s business model focuses on strategically acquiring distressed data center assets across the globe. “The current and future demand for data center capacity of all types that we are seeing globally, but especially in the U.S., is unprecedented and monumental. Arkon aims to fill that gap by providing the underlying infrastructure layer that the AI sector relies on.

Kira Kim
December 22, 2023

Crypto, Robotics & AI

“Akron Energy Secures $110M Investment to Expand U.S. Bitcoin Mining Capabilities and Introduce AI Cloud Services in Norway”

Akron Energy, a data center infrastructure company, closed a $110 million private funding round to expand its operations, the company’s CEO Josh Payne shared exclusively with TechCrunch. “These sites appeal to both bitcoin miners and AI [or] machine learning clients who have very high power computing demands,” Payne said. “We are essentially a landlord who owns the underlying infrastructure assets.”Akron’s business model focuses on strategically acquiring distressed data center assets across the globe. “The current and future demand for data center capacity of all types that we are seeing globally, but especially in the U.S., is unprecedented and monumental. Akron aims to fill that gap by providing the underlying infrastructure layer that the AI sector relies on.

Max Chen
December 22, 2023
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Startups

The Capacity Craze of Precision Fermentation: Have We Gone Too Far?

Precision fermentation’s capacity craze: Have we lost the plot?

In the early days of the industrial production of animal proteins, Pat Brown and his team at Impossible Foods pioneered a new approach to precision fermentation. Using microbial organisms like…