SpaceX Asks FCC for 1M AI Data Centers in Space
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What is SpaceX's plan for a million AI data center satellites?
Today on the show, I wanna talk about the latest news from SpaceX filing some paperwork with the Federal Communications Commission last Friday in what looks like a million satellite data center network, right? So they have filed paperwork to request to be able to shoot a million data center satellites up orbiting the Earth. And at first, I think a lot of people said this is like, oh, you know, this is kind of just Elon. This is like a theatrical idea that is just kind of floating out there because, you know, it makes it sound good to merge SpaceX and XAI and make this $1.25 trillion company before an IPO. I think if you look at what's happening, especially as of today, this is like a week later, I think it is pretty clear that
that he actually means it. So today on the show, I wanna break down what this would look like, what a AI data center cluster floating around the earth of a million satellites would look like, why they would do it, logistically how this would work. There is a lot to unpack here. including some really interesting quotes from Elon Musk on a recent podcast about using solar panels and how much more efficient they are in space, all these different crazy things. So we're going to dive into all of that. Before we do, I wanted to share some really exciting news about my startup, AIbox.ai. We've recently launched some new subscription tiers So AI Box essentially allows you to build tools. Even if you're not a developer, you can describe what you'd like to create.
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I'll leave a link to it in the description. Okay, so with everything happening with SpaceX and this kind of merger, I think one of the biggest signals we got was on Monday, SpaceX officially merged with XAI, and that deal basically is formally tying these two companies together. XAI and of course the AI lab. I think this only really makes sense if both of them are trying to share some sort of infrastructure. Otherwise, why would you merge them? And so I think this is why a lot of people were saying, oh, this is just, you know, and then Elon comes up with this idea to put data centers in space. And then people are like, oh, this is just him trying to like consolidate his companies for a bigger IPO.
um in reality i think this might be an actual really really smart move for both of his companies um but i think what next happened was that there was an fcc filing and if you look at that fcc filing i've been you know reviewing some of the documents i think elon musk is very serious about putting some large-scale ai com compute in orbit Um, this is getting a step closer to reality. On Wednesday, uh, the FCC accepted formally SpaceX's filing and they opened up for public comment.
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