Why Amazon Is Buying Globalstar—and What It Means for Your iPhone
… In January, Musk applied to the FCC to launch 1 million more satellites to build data centers in space. …
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Does This Have Anything to Do With Starlink?
Starlink, a division of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, is still the undisputed leader of the satellite internet space. It currently has nearly 10,000 satellites in orbit. In January, Musk applied to the FCC to launch 1 million more satellites to build data centers in space. SpaceX also seems to be filing for an IPO very soon, with a reported (and ridiculous) goal of hitting a $1.75 trillion valuation. Starlink is valued at $1 trillion of that. (Another $250 billion of estimated value goes to xAI’s horny and racist chatbot Grok.)
Why Amazon Is Buying Globalstar—and What It Means for Your iPhoneAnthropic Gets in Bed With SpaceX as the AI Race Turns Weird
… Notably, Space XAI said in its blog post that Anthropic has “expressed interest” in partnering to develop “orbital AI compute capacity”—essentially, data centers in space. …
SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers
Anthropic and SpaceX announced a deal earlier this month that gives the Claude developer access to GPUs at Colossus and Colossus II, a pair of data centers straddling Tennessee and Mississippi with more than one gigawatt of computing power. …
Elon Musk Is the World’s First Trillionaire
… Retail investors buying SpaceX shares now certainly won’t be getting rich immediately, and neither will the people living near xAI’s dirty data centers. …
Welcome to the Great American Satellite Age
… But Basalt wants to go further, providing any client with their own set of five to 15 satellites in a similar fashion to how cloud computing firms give companies access to data centers full of sophisticated servers. …
Artemis II Astronauts Return Safely to Earth After Historic Flight Around the Moon
… Much of this data was beamed back down to Earth using a new laser communications system that transmits up to 260 megabits per second, much faster than previous radio systems. “Now we can direct orbiters to those regions that they specifically called out where they saw these colors, and we can go an… …
"Uncanny Valley": OpenAI and Musk Fight Again; DOJ Mishandles Voter Data; Artemis II Comes Home
… And so it would unlock a ton of capital for them to keep building out their data centers, to keep building compute. …
Opposing ICE Might Save the Country. It Could Also Ruin Your Life
… Sections of the center are so underheated during winter that detainees have nicknamed them Las Hieleras—the Iceboxes. …