The team at Cowboy Space Corp., which aims to launch and operate AI data centers in Earth orbit. (Image credit: Cowboy Space Corp.) Cowboy Space Corp. has raised $275 million for a satellite "stampede" ahead of its first planned launch later this year. The company itself isn't new, but its name is; Cowboy Space was previously known as Aetherflux . The newly rebranded outfit will use the $275 million — a round of "Series B" funding led by Index Ventures — to launch solar-powered AI data centers to orbit. Cowboy Space plans to do this with a homegrown rocket whose upper stage also serves as a data center — meaning the rocket stage and the data center will be a one-piece deal, acting as a 1-megawatt hub once in orbit. Today marks the beginning of a new era. Introducing: Cowboy Space Corporation.…