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AI’s cheapest real estate might eventually have no real estate at all. On Earth, compute keeps needing more land, more power, more cooling, and bigger buildings. SpaceX's orbital compute has a very different cost curve. Make Starship fully reusable, fly it often, mass-produce
01 THE MACHINE READ
WHY IT MATTERS.
Orbital compute is a speculative long-term thesis that could reshape AI infrastructure economics.
Speculative orbital compute thesis for AI
Starship reusability milestones
Economics unproven; timeline uncertain
FULL DISPATCH
AI’s cheapest real estate might eventually have no real estate at all. On Earth, compute keeps needing more land, more power, more cooling, and bigger buildings. SpaceX's orbital compute has a very different cost curve. Make Starship fully reusable, fly it often, mass-produce the satellites, and suddenly getting compute into orbit gets cheaper as the system scales. Building the next giant AI data centre in space seems obvious. It might get cheaper. @SpaceX @SpaceXAI @Starlink / Writer: Annette, Designer: Janné
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