Elon Musk “is racing,” as the Wall Street Journal put it Wednesday, to take his closely held SpaceX company public — raking in billions in cold, hard cash to fund the founder’s latest wild ambition: orbital AI data centers.
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The “why” is simple. The “what’s next” is where things get interesting. And the “how” might reveal whether Musk still intends to build a self-sustaining human colony on Mars.
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The “why” is that SpaceX doesn’t generate enough cash to tackle Musk’s next project: orbital artificial intelligence data centers. As I’m sure you know, the plain-old Earthbound data centers already planned for construction will likely require more power than our grid can provide, prompting novel solutions like small, modular nuclear reactors that might not ever
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