Okay this is genuinely insane.
SpaceX just unveiled a satellite whose only job is to run AI. Not internet. Not GPS. Just compute, floating in orbit.
It's called AI1, and the reason behind it breaks your brain.
AI data centers on Earth are hitting a wall, not a chip wall, a physics wall.
They need staggering amounts of power and water just to stay cool, and we're running out of grid and land to build them.
So Musk's answer is: stop building them on Earth.
In orbit, the sun never sets. Free power, 24/7. No water for cooling, you just radiate heat into the vacuum of space. The two things choking AI on the ground barely exist up there.
And here's the wild part: Musk says it's easier to build than a Starlink satellite. Strip out the complex antennas and it's "a lot of solar cells, a radiator, and some laser links."
One AI1 carries the compute of an Nvidia GB300 rack, the same hardware data centers fight over down here.
AI1 is just the first one. The plan is a constellation of up to a million of them.
And the timing isn't an accident, SpaceX goes public this week at a ~$1.75 trillion target. This isn't a rocket company anymore. It's positioning itself as the power grid for AI, in space.
The race for AI compute just left the planet. Literally.
@SpaceX
High testosterone behaviors:
-talk to people like you already know them
-lift weights
-unfollow Instagram models
-leave massive tips at restaurants
-don’t get drunk or high with anyone who isn’t a good person
-don’t hookup with a girl who you wouldn’t be pumped to show off to your friends (because she’s so hot and emotionally mature it makes them want a girlfriend)
-buy drinks for people without expecting one in return
-be totally fine with staying in on a Friday night to watch Interstellar
-realize there’s nothing more important than your health (don’t just tell yourself the words like you’re reciting mindless facts in Social Studies class - actually download the belief)
-take random moments throughout your week to realize you’re spinning on a sphere in an infinite universe and the fact you’re alive is a 1 in 500 trillion miracle… you’re so lucky it’s absurd and you have nothing to lose :)
@sailaunderscore Eggs and egg whites in the morning, 9oz chicken for lunch, then steak or lean ground beef at night. I hit 250+ everyday on a 2000cal intake with no issue
The Joe Rogan podcast has become a sort of Absolution Booth where elites under go 3 hours of ritualistic Bro-Talk before being born again as the common man.