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
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MILEI: SHRINKING THE STATE IS THE BEST PUBLIC POLICY ANY GOVERNMENT CAN MAKE
"In the book 'Free to Choose' of Friedman and Rose Director, there is a chapter on public spending that describes the four ways of spending. (...)
You can spend your own money on yourself—You'll maximize benefits because you know what you want (preferences,) and you know what it cost you to earn the money.
The other way is to spend your own money on others—This is known as gifts... So, you'll try to look good with as little as possible (cost minimization.)
The third one is to sepnd other people's money on oneself—That is the waste, right? 'What the hell if the check will be paid by someone else.'
So, what is the worst way to spend?
Spending other people's money on others—That is called 'the welfare state.'
Can it work? No, it cannot. Because politicians don't experience the cost suffered by the private sector of paying taxes, and also they don't know what we want better than ourselves. Therefore, the State will always do it wrong.
Given all this, what is the best policy that a government can make? To shrink the State.
We have lowered consolidated fiscal deficit for 15% of GDP to zero, and lowered 2.5% of GDP in taxes. And we'll continue along the same path, lowering spending and lowering taxes."
-President Javier Milei
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Milton Friedman: “Keep your eye on one thing and one thing only: how much government is spending, because that’s the true tax.”
“If you’re not paying for it in the form of explicit taxes, you’re paying for it indirectly in the form of inflation or borrowing.”