…imagery, plans to spend a substantial amount of money manufacturing GPUs, and uncertainty about orbiting data centers in space working out as a business. Update 5/20/26 7:32pm ET: This…
…to Musk’s orbit. 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. As long as…
…Then there is the new crop of up-and-coming space economy ideas, like AI data centers in space or space-based solar power. These are technologies that work on Earth, and…
…Topics FSD , In Brief , Tesla , Transportation Related AI SoftBank’s CEO isn’t the only one with questions about Elon Musk’s orbital data center hype AI The fittest founder in the…
…application with the Federal Communications Commission to launch a million satellites to create an " orbital data center " earlier this year. As promising as this sounds, it's worth noting that Musk has…
…big bet on AI and speculative orbital data center plans . AI companies are generally facing more challenges in funding and building expensive AI data centers , even as they shift more of the…
…budget , targeting 2nm production and a terawatt of annual compute for AI, robotics, and orbital data centers. SpaceX has since filed a property tax abatement application in Grimes County, Texas, for a…
…After merging with Musk’s company xAI in February, SpaceX now operates data centers in Memphis, Tennessee. In its regulatory filing , the company has disclosed a deal under which Google will pay…
…Starlink direct-to-cell? Orbital data centers? SpaceX’s fantastic valuation after its IPO? An eventual city on Mars? All of these rely entirely on Starship fulfilling its promise of rapid, low…
…The Long March 12B’s debut follows China’s first two attempts to recover an orbital-class booster with the Zhuque-3 and Long March 12A rockets in December. Neither landed successfully…
