NeevCloud, an Indian sovereign artificial intelligence (AI) cloud infrastructure company under RackBank Datacenters Private Limited has announced the signing of a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with Agnikul Cosmos Private Limited. The partnership aims to deliver India’s first indigenous, AI-powered Data Centre in space, redefining how scalable and sovereign AI compute infrastructure is built and delivered.
With NeevCloud’s deep tech expertise and sovereign AI architecture combined with Agnikul’s orbital launch capabilities, the alliance aims to bridge the global AI access gap. The initiative will place high-performance AI inference nodes directly into low Earth orbit (LEO), enabling secure, low-latency intelligence for billions of users and critical industries worldwide.
Commenting on the announcement, founder and chief executive officer (CEO), said, NeevCloud, said, “We are not just building a data centre in space, we are building an entirely new layer of orbital inferencing infrastructure. To truly democratise AI, we must decouple it from terrestrial limitations. By partnering with Agnikul, we are taking our AI SuperCloud to the ultimate orbit edge – Space. This partnership ensures access to the AI infrastructure that powers the next decade of global intelligence, low-latency AI not just to our cities, but to every village and border post, AI for all.”
Under the MoU, Agnikul Cosmos will provide the launch vehicle and orbital hosting platform, leveraging its lightweight and extendable upper-stage architecture. The upper stage including the top nozzle will remain in LEO and be repurposed as a fully functional space-based data centre, while the lower stage safely returns to Earth.
Meanwhile, co-founder and CEO, Agnikul Cosmos, said, “As with all rockets, with more launches, we naturally leave behind upper stages in orbit. Our convertible upper-stage technology lets these stages stay active and functional, turning them into usable assets that can host hardware and software in space including compute or data capabilities. That’s the next step for a space transportation company – you build, launch, recover, and then extend into orbit.”
NeevCloud will deploy datacenter, operate, and orchestrate AI inferencing, and processing capabilities within this orbital platform. The system will be powered entirely by solar energy and integrated with NeevCloud’s advanced AI cloud orchestration framework.
The AI Data Centre in Space will function as a continuous, near real-time AI inferencing network, supporting latency-sensitive and mission-critical use cases such as defence, maritime and energy, manufacturing automation, and real-time AI decision-making. By operating from orbit, the model reduces the need for multiple replicated terrestrial edge data centres, cutting graphics processing unit (GPU) duplication, capital expenditure, land use, energy consumption, and cooling infrastructure, while significantly extending the effective utilisation and lifespan of high-value AI silicon.
The first pilot is scheduled for launch before the end of this year. Following successful validation, NeevCloud will scale the network to 600+ orbital edge data centers over the next three years. This constellation will serve as a continuous, real-time inferencing capability that will offload heavy compute tasks from terrestrial devices to AI chips in space.
