Earthjustice Petitions FCC to Freeze Orbital Datacenter Licenses for Environmental Review

Earthjustice, representing several environmental groups, filed a petition urging the FCC to prepare a Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement (PEIS) under NEPA before approving pending applications for orbital datacenters. These proposals, from companies like SpaceX and Blue Origin, collectively seek to place "well over a million datacenter satellites" into low Earth orbit. The groups argue that the FCC's current licensing rules are inadequate for this new class of infrastructure and its cumulative environmental impacts.