Cowboy Space raises $275M to build rockets for orbital AI data centers

cowboy space raised $275m in series b funding led by index ventures to develop its own launch vehicle, citing a shortage of commercial rockets for scaling orbital ai infrastructure. founded by robinhood co-founder baiju bhatt, the company pivoted from solar energy to data centers and now rocket manufacturing to secure launch capacity. the firm intends to build data centers into the rocket's second stage, a design reminiscent of explorer 1, to simplify logistics and improve unit economics against terrestrial alternatives.