It's not an engineering bet.

Musk's bet is dysfunctional politics will make it impossible to build enough data centres and the energy needed to power them. There are many, many reasons that might be wrong. However, if the economics are even close to viable, they could start throwing up data centres quicker than anyone can build them terrestrially (at least in the democratic west).

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porkpieshoe 4 hours ago | parent [-]

So to be clear, the prediction is that every single location on earth will be economically infeasible due to politics, and that these same politics will have no impact on the launch or satellite businesses?

GMAFB.

It's stock pump bullshit from a guy who has figured out how to extract the maximum from stock markets.

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Rover222 4 hours ago | parent [-]

Meanwhile Nvidia just announced a space-optimized Vera Rubin designed with SpaceX designed for orbital datacenters.

But yeah, I'm sure you people with Elon Derangement Syndrome actually have it all figured out /s

https://x.com/nvidia/status/2091920680317046847

	▲	magicalist 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> Meanwhile Nvidia just announced a space-optimized Vera Rubin designed with SpaceX designed for orbital datacenters. well, no, they announced the concept of a space-optimized Vera Rubin designed with SpaceX: > NVIDIA and SpaceXAI are working to adapt that foundation to the requirements of orbital computing while preserving a common NVIDIA architecture and software ecosystem. The press release is really announcing that SpaceX's terrestrial data centres are going to use Vera Rubin. https://nvidianews.nvidia.com/news/spacexai-adopts-nvidia-ve...