The proposal surfaced publicly after the Austin Business Journal reported that Iron Mountain’s data-center arm has staked out land near the Samsung site. According to the paper, the company has filed early paperwork that could kick off entitlement steps and required public-notice periods, as reported by the Austin Business Journal.

SpaceX CEO Elon Musk revealed more technical, but not financial, details about his company’s plans to deploy an orbital data center constellation.

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Iron Mountain (NYSE: IRM) – which reported nearly $7 billion in revenue last year – is a prominent record management services company with more than 240,000 customers worldwide. Its data center division has more than 30 locations across the world, and another may be added in Austin's backyard.