SpaceX Asks to Put One Million Data Centers in Orbit. The Math Says Otherwise.

SpaceX asked the FCC for one million orbital data center satellites. The filing has no hardware specs and no timeline. Here is what it really means.

SpaceX Files for 1 Million Orbital AI Data Centers

SpaceX needs a story worth one trillion dollars, and on Friday evening it filed one with the Federal Communications Commission.

The company is preparing what could become the largest technology IPO in history. It is in merger talks with xAI, Elon Musk's AI venture. And it just asked the U.S. government for permission to launch one million satellites into low Earth orbit, not for internet service, not for Earth observation, but for computing. Artificial intelligence computing, powered by sunlight, cooled by the vacuum of space.

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