Orbital Data Centers Promise Sub-100ms Latency That Ground Networks Cannot Match

Cowboy Space raised $275 million in Series B funding to deploy data centers in low Earth orbit using repurposed rocket upper stages. The model addresses a genuine constraint: orbital positioning delivers sub-100-millisecond latency for real-time applications, compared to 600+ milliseconds from geostationary satellites. This enables edge computing workloads and geographic redundancy unavailable from terrestrial cloud providers, potentially opening enterprise and defense applications that prioritize speed and resilience over conventional data center economics.