> Money raised from a public offering would most likely help SpaceX finance its long-term goals of launching artificial intelligence data centers into orbit, creating a colony on the moon and getting humans to Mars. These are expensive and unproven endeavors that may take years and billions of dollars to achieve.

Oh my god. When a journalist writes like any of this is remotely plausible within “years” and “billions” of dollars it really downplays the near impossibility of these events happening.

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erulabs 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Technically if it takes 500 years and $17T it is still possible within "years" and "billions"

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hattmall 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What possible reasonable benefit would there be to datacenters in space? Why would that even be a concept at all?

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erulabs 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Genuinely: regulation. Every other benefit is conceptual at best. If SpaceX controls the entire heavy launch market _and_ they control data-centers in space, then absolutely no one on earth is in a position to control or regulate such a data-center except SpaceX themselves.

I'm not arguing that it's a good idea, but that is the idea.

	▲	tehlike 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		you can build datacenters on international waters, and that'd likely be cheaper no?

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thrance 4 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

It's a convenient way to merge AI and spacetech, two hot topics to the retared investor class that rules our world. The reality and feasibility of it doesn't matter.

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seydor 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I think it s more important to question their profitability