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China's orbital AI datacenter has run for six months

development2025-12-20

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China has been operating the Three-Body Computing Constellation, a space-based AI data center network, for over six months, with plans to scale to 2,800 satellites.

Reported metric: 2,800 satellites planned

Reporting date: 2025-12-20 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to December 20, 2025 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

The orbital datacenter stops being a first and becomes an operating national asset.

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Three-Body Computing Constellation

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Starcloud runs the first LLM training run in orbit

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China's orbital AI datacenter has run for six months
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Reporting date: 2025-12-20
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2025-12-20-three-body-constellation
Claim: China has been operating the Three-Body Computing Constellation, a space-based AI data center network, for over six months, with plans to scale to 2,800 satellites.
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- Welcome to December 20, 2025 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-december-20-2025
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