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
🚨 Breaking:
Reports claim that Iran launched hypersonic missiles targeting Tel Aviv, Israel, causing widespread destruction.
According to these claims, over 150 people were killed and more than 600 injured.
Somebody said don't be afraid to spend money on concert tickets and travel. Be afraid of growing old and realizing the only place you ever went was work.
And I couldn't agree more.
🚨 BREAKING: In an incredible sight, Sen. Bernie Sanders is ERUPTING on the Senate floor due to the Democrats caving on the shutdown to Donald Trump
“What this Senate is about to do is make things WORSE!! 😡”
GREAT sign! The far left is mad tonight! 🔥
Air traffic controllers aren’t getting paid.
Federal employees aren’t getting paid.
Practically the only people in our government who ARE getting paid are members of Congress.
That's why I brought two bills to the Senate floor to stop paying Congress during shutdowns.
Amazing moment @juanpablo2santos is the last person to cross the finish line at the @nycmarathon The moment occurred at 12:34am and took him 15 hours 21 minutes to complete the race #whatisnewyork (@interiorphotography)
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