Elon Musk reveals SpaceX's 230-foot-wide orbital AI data center satellite ahead of IPO

Nobody said it will not work, seriously? Why don't you look around?
But you're right, some "experts" also claim it makes no sense economically. Probably that's why we're about to see the greatest IPO of all time - everyone's obsessed with investing in stuff that make no economic sense. Especially when the guy in charge has money, but, as you say money doesn't make you an expert.
It doesn't matter that Musk launched more rockets and satellites than the rest of the world combined, that doesn't make him an expert in rockets and satellites. He also built the largest datacenters on earth in time nobody believed possible, but of course he's no expert in datacenters either. You are the expert, without quotation marks.

Musk in general is a dimwit with family money who got lucky a couple of times buying out other people.

A 140KW rack of compute makes no sense in terms of economics. By the time you’ve got it into orbit it won’t make a profit in its lifetime assuming perfect operation and even then by the time it could get close the hardware is outdated and would need updating as it’s too slow.
 
Musk in general is a dimwit with family money who got lucky a couple of times buying out other people.

A 140KW rack of compute makes no sense in terms of economics. By the time you’ve got it into orbit it won’t make a profit in its lifetime assuming perfect operation and even then by the time it could get close the hardware is outdated and would need updating as it’s too slow.
There are millions of people with family money. How many of them launch rockets and satellites? I'll not ask how many of them launch more rockets and more satellites than everyone else in the world combined.

As for "makes no sense in terms of economics", all the 'experts' said the same for SpaceX, Tesla, xAI etc. We are about to see the greatest IPO of all time because none of these make economic sense?
 
There are millions of people with family money. How many of them launch rockets and satellites? I'll not ask how many of them launch more rockets and more satellites than everyone else in the world combined.
A few? He also doesn’t “launch rockets and sattelties” he bought into a company. One of them is president of the US.
As for "makes no sense in terms of economics", all the 'experts' said the same for SpaceX, Tesla, xAI etc. We are about to see the greatest IPO of all time because none of these make economic sense?
Not even close to the same and no they didn’t. Also xAI is a failure which is why they’ve bolted it onto this IPO.

You’re also ignoring things like the hyperloop aren’t you
 
There are millions of people with family money. How many of them launch rockets and satellites? I'll not ask how many of them launch more rockets and more satellites than everyone else in the world combined.

As for "makes no sense in terms of economics", all the 'experts' said the same for SpaceX, Tesla, xAI etc. We are about to see the greatest IPO of all time because none of these make economic sense?
Depends. How many of them ate government funds like no tomorrow?

As for "makes no sense in terms of economics" - the vast majority really did not make sense. Tesla is still scamming ppl with FSD and the claims it's making about it, xAi is never going to make a profit and SpaceX is also loosing money like crazy.

In the end, announcements made like this are just fabricated hype to raise the stock value before transactions are made. Elon is known to manipulate the stock market heavily. And the fact that the US hasn't done anything about this blatant market manipulation is just sad...
 
It makes no sense to launch a DC in space, unless you want to process local data from the satellites themselves. Computation would transform Starlink into a big passive radar.
 
Musk in general is an ***** with family money who got lucky a couple of times buying out other people.
This is so ludicrously absurd I literally laughed aloud. Musk started his first company with a $28K loan. That's it. He turned that into $22 million and used $10M to start Paypal. He quickly turned that into $180M and used the funds to start both Tesla and SpaceX. Now he's turned that into $1 trillion. Trillion, with a T.

It reassures a few people with swollen inadequacy complexes to chalk all this up to "blind luck", but the rest of us know he's got a unique knack for entrepreneurship.

SpaceX is also loosing [sic] money like crazy.
SpaceX's core business is making money like crazy. SpaceX earned a net profit in 2024 (and is on track for a much larger one in 2026); their 2025 balance sheet showed a large operating profit in 2025 as well. The net less was due simply to enormous sums spent in capex expansion and acquisitions.
 
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This is so ludicrously absurd I literally laughed aloud when reading it. Musk started his first company with a $28K loan. He turned that into $22 million and used $10M of that to start Paypal. He quickly turned that into $180M and used the funds to start both Tesla and SpaceX. Now he's turned that into $1 trillion. Trillion, with a T.
Sure he did but and that diamond mine had nothing to do with it.
It reassures a few people with swollen inadequacy complexes to chalk all this up to "blind luck", but the rest of us know he's got a unique knack for entrepreneurship.
Blind luck, illegally manipulating the stock market and most of his companies not actually being profitable until the government pumps billions into them.
 
Sure he did but and that diamond mine had nothing to do with it.
Repeating disinformation simply makes you appear foolish:

"Diamond Claim: Rumors that the family owned an "diamond mine" were completely false, and Elon Musk has never benefitted from this or received a large family inheritance. [1]"

Blind luck, illegally manipulating the stock market and most of his companies not actually being profitable until the government pumps billions into them.
It's a cool narrative, but I doubt even you believe such nonsense.

"Under the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) program, eleven companies received more than $10B in loans, including a $465M loan extended to Tesla...

Early Repayment: Tesla paid off the entire loan, including interest and penalties, in May 2013. It was one of the only American car companies to fully repay its government loan from that era..."


Than loan represents some 0.03% of Tesla's market value.

There *are* a few people who've had enough "blind luck" to start one highly successful firm. But not five in a row.
 
Repeating disinformation simply makes you appear foolish:
Your political knowledge is confused. The Nazis (Germany's National Socialists) were a far Left political party.
For once I agree with you, you absolutely continue to look foolish in every post.

Why anyone would entertain a response to you after saying something so demonstrably wrong is beyond me.

Your attempt at rewriting history isn't going to work. And certainly repeating this absolutely demonstrably incorrect statement isn't going to convince anyone that you are knowledgeable on this or any topic.
 
I've been saying essentially the same things for years. The trouble is, those with EDS, Elon Disciple Syndrome are incapable of seeing the truth of the reality.

And as to lies? What about fElon being "King of Mars?" https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/elon-musk-proposed-pay-package-235643054.html



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Watch the defenders of fElon pop up and defend fElon!
Genuinely curious; when you refer to Musk as "fElon", is that to mean "f--- Elon" (two words), or "Felon" (charged with a felony)?
 
Why anyone would entertain a response to you after saying something so demonstrably wrong is beyond me.
The events of history are immutable fact. Germany's National Socialists began as a far-Left labor movement: their goals, rhetoric, and political platform -- including their infamous "25 point plan" -- align largely with the "progressive" Left of today. It wasn't until their atrocities were exposed that Leftists began rewriting history to call them "right wing", despite their sharing literally nothing in common with conservative ideology. Conservatives didn't vote Hitler into power, nor did they cheer him in his rallies. Leftists did.

The same is true of Mussolini's fascism -- the "fasci" were Left-wing Italian unionists, and Mussolini himself was a far-Left socialist writer before inventing what he called his "perfected" version of socialism.

Those like @Puiu are quick to point out that Hitler, once he achieved total power, did what Mao, Stalin, Pol Pot, and all other authoritarian Leftists did: lost all interest in continuing the goals that brought them into office, and instead focused on removing all opposition and remaining in power forever.
 
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Repeating disinformation simply makes you appear foolish:

"Diamond Claim: Rumors that the family owned an "diamond mine" were completely false, and Elon Musk has never benefitted from this or received a large family inheritance. [1]"


It's a cool narrative, but I doubt even you believe such nonsense.
Maybe you should stop suing Grok
"Under the Department of Energy’s Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing (ATVM) program, eleven companies received more than $10B in loans, including a $465M loan extended to Tesla...

Early Repayment: Tesla paid off the entire loan, including interest and penalties, in May 2013. It was one of the only American car companies to fully repay its government loan from that era..."


Than loan represents some 0.03% of Tesla's market value.
Current market value, not at the time and you, or the AI you’re using, is the grants and incentives the government paid out to encourage and support EV rollout.
There *are* a few people who've had enough "blind luck" to start one highly successful firm. But not five in a row.
Aside from he hasn’t started 5 in a row nor are most of them successful. The only successful thing he’s done is get bought out at x.com shortly after he fired everyone doing the actual work and then investing in Tesla and paying to change the company documents to list as a founder.

Most of his companies, including spaceX, are not profitable and operate into the billions in losses. Remove public money and it would be even worse.
 
Depends. How many of them ate government funds like no tomorrow?
OK, when the government needs to launch something to orbit, who should get the contract? For all practical purposes, there is only one player, worldwide, and that's SpaceX. The government occasionally contracts other companies to maintain competition (or the illusion of it, to be precise) , but let's not pretend someone else can do the job reliably.

As for "makes no sense in terms of economics" - the vast majority really did not make sense. Tesla is still scamming ppl with FSD and the claims it's making about it, xAi is never going to make a profit and SpaceX is also loosing money like crazy.
So because Tesla still does not have 100% FSD (which nobody else has), that makes it a bad car? People buy Tesla because they expect a 100% working FSD? Don't be ridiculous.

As for xAI, you probably missed the latest deals with Anthropic and Google, each of them paying xAI roughly a billion (with a B) every single month to use the Colossus datacenters.
 
Maybe you should stop suing Grok
You can't change reality by denying it. Musk's family never owned a diamond mine, nor did Musk receive large sums from his family.

...the grants and incentives the government paid out to encourage and support EV rollout.
Musk didn't receive any federal grants: they were loans. And a dozen other EV companies received as larger or large loans, yet all those companies failed. Point proven: case closed.

Aside from he hasn’t started 5 in a row nor are most of them successful.
Oops again! Musk started Zip2 on a $28K loan: it was sold to Compaq for $300M five years later. Musk started Paypal (technically he merged his existing company into it), changed it into a payment processor, and sold it three years later for $1.5B. Then came Tesla and Space, both now trillion dollar firms. That's a thousand times larger than a billion, btw.

Then there's Neuralink and the Boring Company, both of which have transformed roughly $1B in venture capital into about $8-9B each ... not the gargantuan successes of his other ventures, but still highly successful by venture capital metrics, in which most firms rapidly go under.

But by all means, tell us again how you struggle to afford a new stick of ram ... because of Musk, of course.
 
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The day this Elon guy dies, I think the world will be a better place. (Compared to other living tech guys).
There are much worse people alive right now. You are just brainwashed by mainstream media to hate this guy more than them.

Well done NPC
 
If data centres only used 120kW there would be no problem, and no need to send them into space!
Oops! Data centers on earth benefit from economies of scale. For space-based centers, those economies come by manufacturing and launching a satellite constellation. SpaceX intends to launch one million 120kW-class satellites, powering 120+ gigawatts of total compute.
 
Maybe you should stop suing Grok

Current market value, not at the time and you, or the AI you’re using, is the grants and incentives the government paid out to encourage and support EV rollout.

Aside from he hasn’t started 5 in a row nor are most of them successful. The only successful thing he’s done is get bought out at x.com shortly after he fired everyone doing the actual work and then investing in Tesla and paying to change the company documents to list as a founder.

Most of his companies, including spaceX, are not profitable and operate into the billions in losses. Remove public money and it would be even worse.
Google literally states his father owned a share. I can also own shares in mines, doesn't make me rich.

You lefties love conflating facts to benefit yourselves. Hence why I am not reading all your other false ramblings.
 
Google literally states his father owned a share. I can also own shares in mines, doesn't make me rich.

You lefties love conflating facts to benefit yourselves. Hence why I am not reading all your other false ramblings.
Ah yes not rich with the safe that was so full it was difficult to close.

They also co-owned an emerald mine not just simply holding a few shares
 
Ah yes not rich with the safe that was so full it was difficult to close.

They also co-owned an emerald mine not just simply holding a few shares
"Elon Musk's father, Errol Musk, did not directly own an emerald mine, but he acquired a substantial financial stake in one. [1, 2]" As in, had a share in the mine, NOT own it. **** me, obviously a broke college student brainwashed by the left narrative.

Thinks net worth equates to real money before they sell those shares...
 
You’re citing Wikipedia and taking elons contradictory statements as gospel.

Question: is having a 60% stake co owning or just a share? I mean they don’t have 100% of it.

Says the guy quoting someone contradicting himself and treating it like it’s indisputable.
 
You’re citing Wikipedia and taking elons contradictory statements as gospel.

Question: is having a 60% stake co owning or just a share? I mean they don’t have 100% of it.

Says the guy quoting someone contradicting himself and treating it like it’s indisputable.
Contradicting yourself now. 50% is the real percentage.

And he didn't even make $1m in todays money. That's not really that rich, that's a house in Australia.

Guess it's rich for someone who probably lives on handouts like yourself.
 
You’re citing Wikipedia and taking elons contradictory statements as gospel.

Question: is having a 60% stake co owning or just a share?
Once again, you are reliably wrong:

".... Thanks to reports in the past, Elon Musk’s name will always be related to a narrative suggesting that his family was obnoxiously wealthy because they owned an emerald mine. The emerald mine story is fodder for Musk critics, as it provides an argument that supports the narrative that Musk is fond of lying and that he never really worked his way up.

Earlier this year, Musk provided some much-needed context about his apparent about-face with regards to his father’s supposed emerald mine. In a post on X, Musk explained that for a while, he believed his father when he was told Errol owned a share in a mine in Zambia. However, nobody has ever seen the mine and there are no records of it. Musk then noted that there’s just no “objective evidence whatsoever” that the mine ever existed.

As per Walter Isaacson, whose book on the Tesla CEO is coming out this week, it turns out that Elon Musk was really telling the truth. Errol Musk never owned an emerald mine.
The biographer noted that Errol Musk used to own a light plane in the 1980s, and he sold it to an entrepreneur in 1986 in exchange for some emeralds. The emeralds were from a mine that the businessman owned in Zambia. Errol Musk confirmed with Isaacson that [he] simply imported raw emeralds into South Africa and had them cut in Johannesburg..."


Not that any of this is even relevant. Musk's total contribution from his father was one $28K loan, which he converted into $1,000,000,000,000.00 in record time.
 
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