Six months ago, almost no one was talking about orbital data centers.
Today, Starship is rewriting the economics so fast that the idea has gone from speculative to “no doubt.”
Fully and rapidly reusable rockets (landing like aircraft at the Cape) collapse the cost of putting compute into orbit. Once that barrier falls, the physics advantages become overwhelming:
• Unlimited solar power
• Perfect radiative cooling in vacuum
• No land, no local power grid constraints, no water for cooling
Earth’s surface is becoming the expensive, constrained option for the next generation of AI training clusters.
The economic center of gravity for compute is shifting upward and it’s happening faster than most people realize.
The future of AI isn’t just bigger GPUs.
It’s bigger orbit.
Cursor just held their first ever conference.
And they dropped:
- 1.5T model trained from scratch
- Github direct replacement Origin
- iOS app
nobody saw this coming...
full breakdown (thread):
SpaceX has exercised the option to acquire @cursor_ai in an all-stock transaction with the goal of building the world’s most useful AI models.
For the past few months, SpaceXAI has been jointly training a model with Cursor, which will be released in Cursor and Grok Build soon.
We look forward to working closely with the Cursor team to advance our frontier AI capabilities
This is probably one of the wildest sentences I've ever read.
In Elon's new letter: "Factories on the Moon can take advantage of lunar resources to manufacture satellites and deploy them further into space. By using an electromagnetic mass driver and lunar manufacturing, it is possible to put 500 to 1000 TW/year of AI satellites into deep space, meaningfully ascend the Kardashev scale and harness a non-trivial percentage of the Sun’s power."
🚨ICYMI🇬🇭🎹🇸🇦: 12yr old Ghanaian piano prodigy Jude Kofie stole the show at the just ended @JoyAwards in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia.
The music savant showcased a mastery of the keys far beyond his yrs, playing a complex mix of classical & contemp. pcs, earning him a standing ovation.
🔥🇪🇺 Tesla launches the new Model 3 Standard (RWD) in Europe!
✅ €36,990 starting price
✅ 534 km WLTP range (~332 mi)
✅ 6.2s for 0-100 km/h
✅ Front bumper camera
✅ Panoramic glass roof
✅ 18” Prismata wheels
✅ 7-speaker sound system
✅ Vegan leather seats with textile inserts
✅ First-row heated seats
✅ Second-row manual-folding seats
✅ No ambient lighting
✅ Manually adjustable steering wheel
✅ Textile décor
✅ 15.4” front touchscreen
✅ No second-row touchscreen
✅ Manually adjustable second-row air vents
✅ Manually adjustable side mirrors
✅ No automatic dimmable side mirrors
✅ Simplified suspension with passive shock absorbers
✅ 3 paint options:
• Pearl White
• Diamond Black (€1,300)
• Stealth Grey (€1,300)
✅ Deliveries start in February 2026