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> Money raised from a public offering would most likely help SpaceX finance its long-term goals of launching artificial intelligence data centers into orbit, cr
by pilgrim0 6mo ago
> Money raised from a public offering would most likely help SpaceX finance its long-term goals of launching artificial intelligence data centers into orbit, creating a colony on the moon and getting humans to Mars. These are expensive and unproven endeavors that may take years and billions of dollars to achieve.
Oh my god. When a journalist writes like any of this is remotely plausible within “years” and “billions” of dollars it really downplays the near impossibility of these events happening.
- hattmall 6mo agoWhat possible reasonable benefit would there be to datacenters in space? Why would that even be a concept at all?
- thrance 6mo agoIt's a convenient way to merge AI and spacetech, two hot topics to the retared investor class that rules our world. The reality and feasibility of it doesn't matter.
- erulabs 6mo agoGenuinely: regulation. Every other benefit is conceptual at best. If SpaceX controls the entire heavy launch market _and_ they control data-centers in space, then absolutely no one on earth is in a position to control or regulate such a data-center except SpaceX themselves. I'm not arguing that it's a good idea, but that is the idea.
- tehlike 6mo agoyou can build datacenters on international waters, and that'd likely be cheaper no?
- Nemrod67 6mo agoa boat + demolition material are way cheaper than a rocket + demolition material, but that's not counting micrometeorites and such. still seems like a daft idea all in all, or a very distant one at least.
- erulabs 6mo agoTechnically if it takes 500 years and $17T it is still possible within "years" and "billions"
- seydor 6mo agoI think it s more important to question their profitability