SpaceNews.com
• John David Callison, Joseph Minafra
Supply chains, not hardware, are the bottleneck for space-based data centers
Developers pursuing orbital data centers say hardware performance is largely solved; the bottleneck has shifted to supply chains—component shortages, long lead times and manufacturing complexity—that are delaying deployments, raising costs and stretching timelines for commercial and state-backed efforts to host cloud and AI compute in orbit.
