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Cowboy Space leases a huge facility in the Seattle area to produce hardware for orbital data centers

291,000 sq ft. Cowboy Space just leased a massive Washington facility to build hardware for orbital data centers — the compute buildout is going vertical.

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Why it matters

Orbital data centers represent a new frontier in AI compute infrastructure. A major facility expansion signals that companies are moving beyond Earth-based data centers to address power, cooling, and latency constraints in the AI race.

The key facts

8 to know
  1. Cowboy Space leasing 291,035-square-foot facility in Kent, Washington

  2. Facility supports production of orbital data center hardware

  3. California-based company expanding manufacturing capacity

  4. Orbital data centers as emerging AI infrastructure strategy

  5. Cowboy Space leasing 291,035-sq-ft facility in Kent, Washington

  6. Production focus: hardware for orbital data centers

  7. California-based company scaling manufacturing capacity

  8. Orbital data center infrastructure as emerging compute architecture

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Publisher excerpt: California-based Cowboy Space is leasing a 291,035-square-foot industrial facility in Kent, Wash., to support the production of hardware for its…
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