Computing Power Breaks Through the Atmosphere - 36Kr

Rising heat-related power limits, tighter data-center capacity, and higher cross-border bandwidth costs are pushing some offline workloads into space-based computing.

Industries such as offshore oil and gas, natural resources, remote sensing, and meteorology are beginning to shift batch processing to orbit.

New supply-side projects, including the Shanghai Xingzhu plan and SenseTime’s Qianxing WanP constellation, are accelerating the sector’s development.

State-backed entities and auditors are also testing new rules for depreciation, classification, and cost accounting for space compute assets.