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Planet Labs

A company that builds and operates Earth-imaging satellites and sells their imagery; it is one commercial source used to track AI data-centre construction.

www.planet.com · also called Planet; Planet Labs PBC

Provider-reported

Planet Labs PBC designs, builds and operates a fleet of Earth-observation satellites and sells satellite imagery and geospatial data; it is a public benefit corporation listed on the New York Stock Exchange 1. Its imagery is one of the commercial inputs available for remote detection of data centres:

  • Named imagery source. A Federation of American Scientists report on tracking AI data centres with satellite imagery names Planet Labs, with Airbus and Vantor, as commonly used sources of paid commercial imagery 2.
  • Monitoring for an AI developer. Planet reports that in August 2026 it renewed an agreement with a "hyperscaler AI developer" for global monitoring of data centres and of semiconductor-fab construction 1. It says its high-resolution Pelican imagery tracks construction milestones at these sites, which it calls indicators of "supply chain health and computing capacity" 1.

Mechanisms

Mechanisms this organization has designed, built, evaluated or supplied.

  • R1Remote detection of data centres
    Remote detection locates large data centres and estimates their power capacity without site access, using satellite imagery, heat signatures and public records such as permits.

Publications

Sources this organization authored or published.

Sources

  1. CPlanet Labs PBC (2026). Planet Reports Financial Results for Second Quarter of Fiscal Year 2027. Business Wire (press release). Source recordSupports: company description; renewed data-centre and chip-fab monitoring agreement with an AI developer (provider-reported)
  2. BC. Krawec (2026). Tracking Hyperscale AI Data Center Growth with Satellite Imagery. Federation of American Scientists. Source recordSupports: named among commonly used providers of paid satellite imagery in a data-centre tracking report