How Intellistake Aims to Become the Blockchain Backbone for Space Data Centers
Jason Dussault
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder
This Post is disseminated on behalf of Intellistake Technologies Corp.
Over time, I’ve noticed that there’s a moment every few years when the technology industry has to admit that the path it’s been following can’t continue forever. It never announces it outright; the realization tends to slip in sideways, through a research paper, a passing comment on an earnings call, or a CEO’s tweet that sounds half like a joke. But every so often, you can feel the center of gravity shift.
Lately, that feeling has been coming from above our heads.
For the first time, credible companies, not hobbyists, not dreamers, are openly exploring data centers in space. Google has published research on a concept system called Project Suncatcher, designed to test the feasibility of orbital compute. SpaceX has floated the idea that upgraded Starlink satellites may one day host computational payloads. Smaller but serious players like Lonestar and Axiom Space are prototyping storage modules that could potentially operate on the Moon.
It’s still very early. Experimental, even.
But something important has changed: this is no longer just a thought experiment. The cloud is starting to look at the one place it hasn’t yet occupied.
And it’s doing so for reasons that are far more grounded than you might expect.
Our planet is tired.
We don’t talk about it in those terms, but the signs are there.
Every new AI model is bigger. Every deployment is heavier. Every year, the power and cooling profile of data infrastructure creeps upward, and the industry responds with more of the same: larger buildings, colder water, more ambitious grid connections. It builds and builds, seemingly without end.
And at some point, we will begin to feel the limits.
On Earth, a data center is always fighting physics: the heat must be pushed out; the air must be conditioned; the energy must be fed in from a grid that was never built with AI-scale consumption in mind. Even with remarkable engineering, the fundamentals are starting to groan.
But in orbit… that relationship flips. Heat dissipates naturally into the cold vacuum. Solar power arrives unfiltered, day after day, with no atmosphere to soften it. Cooling becomes less of a mechanical battle and more of a structural reality.
I don’t think anyone would call it easy, space comes with its own brutal problems: radiation, latency, maintenance, reliability. But I’ve noticed that there’s a growing sense in the industry that the cloud cannot continue to grow as it has been, not indefinitely at least, and that some degree of off-planet computation may become part of the solution set.
Maybe not tomorrow. But “one day” no longer sounds naïve.
The shift never arrives in a single moment.
It almost never does.
Big changes usually appear first as small signals. A research blog here, a quote in an interview there, a quiet slide in a deck that doesn’t quite match the world we know yet.
Right now, those signals are all pointing upward.
Google has started talking openly about putting AI data centres in orbit. The company plans to launch its first trial hardware into space by 2027, powered directly by the sun rather than a city grid.1 Sundar Pichai describes it as a way to keep scaling AI “using the sun as our energy source” instead of relying solely on Earth’s infrastructure.2
Jeff Bezos has been even more blunt. Years ago he said, “We need to take all heavy industry, all polluting industry, and move it into space… and keep Earth as this beautiful gem.”3 This year he went further, calling orbital data centres the “next step” for space—a future fleet of gigawatt-scale data centres flying in sunlight, doing the world’s hardest compute work off-planet.4
Elon Musk, for his part, keeps repeating a simple idea: life should be “multi-planetary,” and we should treat that as urgent.5 Recently, he’s talked about Starship deploying vast constellations of solar-powered AI satellites—hundreds of gigawatts of compute in orbit, far beyond today’s global data-centre capacity.6
Meanwhile Amazon is building Amazon Leo (formerly Project Kuiper), a low-Earth-orbit satellite network that connects directly into AWS so customers can hop from space to cloud in a single step.7Seen one by one, these things look like experiments.
Seen together, they read like the opening chapters of a new infrastructure layer.
The logic behind it is straightforward. In space, the sun is always “on.” Solar power arrives without clouds or night cycles getting in the way. Heat can be dumped into the cold of space instead of pushed out into warming cities. Data can be processed and checked before it ever touches crowded terrestrial networks. And when more capacity is needed, you launch more satellites instead of hunting for land, permits, and a new substation.8
For AI, that combination is incredibly attractive. As models grow and demand climbs, the industry is looking for environments where the physics, the economics, and the sustainability story all line up. Orbit is quickly becoming one of the most convincing answers.
A brief, human moment
This all became much more real for me in a conversation with Joe Honan, CEO of Singularity Compute and an advisor to Intellistake.
Joe lives at the intersection of satellites, telecoms, and big-iron infrastructure. When he talks about AI in space, he doesn’t sound speculative at all. He talks about payload weights, launch cadence, power budgets, cooling envelopes, latency targets. It feels less like a thought experiment and more like walking through a build sheet.
Listening to him, I found myself shifting from “if” to “how fast”
That same practical tone is what drew us into our collaboration with Orbit AI.
Orbit AI is building what they call the Orbital Cloud: a network of intelligent satellites designed to run AI software, move data, and check every important transaction in space before it hits the ground. The easiest way to picture it is as a cloud region that just happens to orbit the planet instead of sitting in a single country.
Intellistake’s role is to provide the blockchain trust layer inside that system—the always-on record-keeper and coordinator that keeps everything honest, synced, and auditable. In plain language, Orbit AI is building the computers in space. Intellistake is building the invisible control and verification layer underneath, the way AWS quietly powers so much of the internet without its name appearing on most screens.9
The Intellistake lens
For me, the most interesting question isn’t whether everything suddenly “moves to space.” It’s how all of these changes (underground facilities, ocean-cooled racks, edge devices, and now orbital platforms) fit together.
Viewed that way, a pattern appears. Intelligence is spreading outward.
Instead of relying on a few giant buildings in a handful of regions, compute is starting to live everywhere: in factories, in offices, in phones, and soon, in satellites. Systems become more flexible and more resilient, less tied to any single grid or geography.10
Intellistake is being built for exactly that world.
We started with decentralized AI networks and validator infrastructure, but the goal was never just to hold tokens or run a few nodes. The bigger ambition is to create the underlying “plumbing” that lets AI, data, and digital value flow safely across many different environments—ground, edge, and orbit—without users needing to care where the work is physically happening.
That’s why the Orbit AI partnership matters so much. Their Orbital Cloud brings together three things: AI compute (DeStarAI), global connectivity (DeStarlink), and a blockchain-based coordination layer where Intellistake intends to run validators and nodes. Taken together, those pieces create a satellite network that can run AI, move data, and log every important action in a tamper-resistant ledger directly in orbit. From a non-technical point of view, it’s like building an AWS-style backbone in space and giving it a built-in black box recorder.11
Through our pending acquisition of Singularity Venture Hub, we’re adding something else: the experience, treasury tools, and governance structures that serious companies expect when they rely on critical infrastructure. That means Intellistake is not just about crypto or AI tokens. It is positioning itself as an infrastructure company that can support everything from new data services to future tokenized assets, all running on the same underlying rails.
When I look at where this is heading, I don’t just see a token ticker on an exchange. I see the early foundation of an AWS-like layer for decentralized and orbital AI—the quiet glue that connects many different systems and makes them feel simple for everyone else.
Where this all might lead
It’s easy to imagine the dramatic version of this future: constellations of glowing satellites, whole “cities” of compute circling the planet. Reality will probably look more ordinary, and that’s exactly what will make it powerful.
Orbit AI plans to launch its first satellite, Genesis-1, with AI hardware and built-in blockchain capabilities in December 2025. A small network will follow in 2026, with a larger constellation targeted into the 2028–2030 window. Intellistake intends to be running the verification and coordination layer that lets this orbital cloud behave like a single, dependable service for businesses on Earth.
That combination places Orbit AI and Intellistake in a particular group. We’re not just talking about orbital data centres as a distant possibility; we’re among the first teams explicitly setting out to run them at meaningful scale. The shared intention is simple: build an orbital cloud that doesn’t stop at experiments, but grows into a service layer that can support real enterprises, real AI workloads, and real value moving through space as confidently as it does on the ground.
Analysts already expect orbital infrastructure and in-orbit data centres to become a multi-billion-dollar market over the next decade.12 As Google, Amazon, SpaceX and others push ahead with their own visions—AI datacentres in orbit, satellite networks tied directly into AWS, fleets of solar-powered AI satellites—the need for a trusted, neutral backbone only increases.13
There are several ways this can unfold.
In one path, orbit becomes the natural home for the heaviest AI jobs—training, large-scale simulations, long-term archives—while people on Earth simply experience faster, smarter services without ever thinking about where the work is being done.
In another, space quietly becomes the extra capacity that keeps terrestrial grids comfortable, allowing AI to keep growing without visible strain.
In every version, the same idea appears: the most valuable infrastructure isn’t the part you can see. It’s the layer underneath, the one that quietly keeps everything connected and trusted.
That’s the layer Intellistake is focused on. And as the cloud stretches from cities to satellites, Intellistake and Orbit AI intend to be among the first to run it at real scale—not just as a concept, but as a service built to support the next generation of AI and digital systems.
A final thought
If “AI data centres in space” still sounds unusual, that’s understandable. A decade or two ago, the idea that most companies would rent their computing from a few global cloud providers sounded unusual too. So did streaming entire film catalogues over the internet. So did reusable rockets landing themselves on drone ships…
Today, those things feel normal.
Orbital infrastructure is on the same trajectory. The pieces are lining up: the physics, the launch capacity, the space-based power, the satellite networks, and now the software and trust layers that make it usable. Bezos talks about moving industry into space to “save Earth.” Musk pushes for a multi-planet civilization. Google and Amazon are designing AI and networking systems that treat orbit as just another place the cloud lives.14
Intellistake intends to help build the backbone beneath that world.
Yes, we work with tokens and decentralized networks, but that is only one expression of what we do. The larger ambition is to become the dependable, invisible infrastructure beneath a much wider universe of AI and digital services—on Earth and above it. And as that universe takes shape, I suspect more and more people will want to be aligned with the platforms that power it, not just the apps that sit on top.
When orbit becomes just another address in the architecture diagram, we intend to be one of the teams making sure it all connects, from the satellites overhead to the investors reading this on the ground.
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