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🚨 Sam Altman Throws Shade at Elon’s Vision of Putting Data Centers in Space “Putting data centers in space is ridiculous … Do the very rough math of launch costs relative to the cost of power we can do on Earth … Orbital data centers are not something that's... show more

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SAM ALTMAN: "The idea with the current landscape of putting data centers in space is ridiculous. Orbital data centers are not something that's going to matter at scale this decade." Lmao, the same dude who admitted he’s out of GPUs & is still begging Microsoft for more GPUs.

SAM ALTMAN: "The idea with the current landscape of putting data centers in space is ridiculous. Orbital data centers are not something that's going to matter at scale this decade." Lmao, the same dude who admitted he’s out of GPUs & is still begging Microsoft for more GPUs.

DogeDesigner

97,171 views • 6 months ago

Elon Musk is building orbital data centers. Sam Altman just called the idea ridiculous. One of them is thinking in decades. The other is thinking in quarters. Altman: “I honestly think the idea with the current landscape of putting data centers in space is ridiculous.” The math he’s running is real. Launch costs are brutal. Power economics favor earth. GPUs break and you can’t send a technician to orbit. Altman: “If you just do the very rough math of launch costs relative to the cost of power we can do on Earth, to say nothing of how you’re going to fix a broken GPU in space, and they do break a lot still unfortunately.” He’s not wrong about today. He might be wrong about what today’s constraints tell us about tomorrow. Altman: “We are not there yet. Orbital data centers are not something it’s going to matter at scale this decade.” This decade. That’s the qualifier doing all the work. Musk has never been in the business of optimizing for this decade. He’s in the business of building infrastructure everyone calls ridiculous until it becomes inevitable. They called reusable rockets ridiculous. Until Falcon 9 landed itself. And the entire economics of space changed overnight. Orbital compute has the same logic underneath it. No land constraints. No permits. No power grid politics. Unlimited solar energy. Positioned anywhere on earth within milliseconds. The launch costs that make it unviable today are the same launch costs Starship is designed to collapse by orders of magnitude. Altman is doing the math on the current landscape. Musk is building a different landscape entirely. When the person who made rockets reusable tells you space infrastructure is coming, that’s not a vision. That’s a roadmap.

Elon Musk is building orbital data centers. Sam Altman just called the idea ridiculous. One of them is thinking in decades. The other is thinking in quarters. Altman: “I honestly think the idea with the current landscape of putting data centers in space is ridiculous.” The math he’s running is real. Launch costs are brutal. Power economics favor earth. GPUs break and you can’t send a technician to orbit. Altman: “If you just do the very rough math of launch costs relative to the cost of power we can do on Earth, to say nothing of how you’re going to fix a broken GPU in space, and they do break a lot still unfortunately.” He’s not wrong about today. He might be wrong about what today’s constraints tell us about tomorrow. Altman: “We are not there yet. Orbital data centers are not something it’s going to matter at scale this decade.” This decade. That’s the qualifier doing all the work. Musk has never been in the business of optimizing for this decade. He’s in the business of building infrastructure everyone calls ridiculous until it becomes inevitable. They called reusable rockets ridiculous. Until Falcon 9 landed itself. And the entire economics of space changed overnight. Orbital compute has the same logic underneath it. No land constraints. No permits. No power grid politics. Unlimited solar energy. Positioned anywhere on earth within milliseconds. The launch costs that make it unviable today are the same launch costs Starship is designed to collapse by orders of magnitude. Altman is doing the math on the current landscape. Musk is building a different landscape entirely. When the person who made rockets reusable tells you space infrastructure is coming, that’s not a vision. That’s a roadmap.

Dustin

28,002 views • 6 months ago

Sam Altman said he thinks “the idea with the current landscape of putting data centers in space is ridiculous … It will make sense someday."

Sam Altman said he thinks “the idea with the current landscape of putting data centers in space is ridiculous … It will make sense someday."

Evan

380,671 views • 6 months ago

David George on SpaceX: “It’s getting harder & harder to get data centers online on Earth. I think it’s only a matter of time before we have them in space. Orbital data centers will provide incremental capacity in space, on top of what we have on Earth.”

David George on SpaceX: “It’s getting harder & harder to get data centers online on Earth. I think it’s only a matter of time before we have them in space. Orbital data centers will provide incremental capacity in space, on top of what we have on Earth.”

DogeDesigner

60,516 views • 2 months ago

Sam Altman just called Elon Musk’s plan for AI data centers in space “ridiculous” in the current landscape—citing brutal launch costs and the hassle of orbital repairs. But history has a clear rule: never bet against Elon. Reusable rockets? Pipe dream—until they weren’t. Electric cars dominating? Laughable—until they did. Space-based compute? Watch this space. Altman might learn the hard way that what sounds absurd today becomes inevitable tomorrow. “I honestly think the idea, with the current landscape, of putting data centers in space is ridiculous.” — Sam Altman (via recent interview) Altman’s point on today’s math is fair—orbital setups aren’t scaling this decade. But Musk’s roadmap (Starship slashing costs, Starlink-scale networks, xAI + SpaceX integration) is built to rewrite that math entirely. History favors the bold dreamer over the cautious calculator. 🚀

Sam Altman just called Elon Musk’s plan for AI data centers in space “ridiculous” in the current landscape—citing brutal launch costs and the hassle of orbital repairs. But history has a clear rule: never bet against Elon. Reusable rockets? Pipe dream—until they weren’t. Electric cars dominating? Laughable—until they did. Space-based compute? Watch this space. Altman might learn the hard way that what sounds absurd today becomes inevitable tomorrow. “I honestly think the idea, with the current landscape, of putting data centers in space is ridiculous.” — Sam Altman (via recent interview) Altman’s point on today’s math is fair—orbital setups aren’t scaling this decade. But Musk’s roadmap (Starship slashing costs, Starlink-scale networks, xAI + SpaceX integration) is built to rewrite that math entirely. History favors the bold dreamer over the cautious calculator. 🚀

Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

15,661 views • 6 months ago

ASML CEO on Elon Musk's Data Centers in space and Terafab: "I think you need a certain amount of data centers and they will be in space, they will be on the earth. I think the discussion about data centers in space is to address another potential bottleneck in the ecosystem, which is energy. I think the discussion around putting data center in space is there because if you do that, the energy consumption or the energy availability will be there, about trying to solve another potential big issue, which is energy for data center. I think the Terafab is an example of a major fab project."

ASML CEO on Elon Musk's Data Centers in space and Terafab: "I think you need a certain amount of data centers and they will be in space, they will be on the earth. I think the discussion about data centers in space is to address another potential bottleneck in the ecosystem, which is energy. I think the discussion around putting data center in space is there because if you do that, the energy consumption or the energy availability will be there, about trying to solve another potential big issue, which is energy for data center. I think the Terafab is an example of a major fab project."

DogeDesigner

48,139 views • 2 months ago

GOOGLE CEO: DATA CENTERS IN SPACE WILL HARNESS THE SUN’S POWER Sundar laid out a vision straight from science fiction, building Google’s future data centers in orbit to capture near-limitless solar energy: “How do we one day have data centers in space so we can better harness the energy from the sun? That’s a hundred trillion times more energy than what we produce on Earth today. In 2027, we’ll take the first step, sending tiny racks of machines aboard satellites to test them out and start scaling. A decade from now, this will be seen as a normal way to build data centers.” Source: Fox, Sundar Pichai

GOOGLE CEO: DATA CENTERS IN SPACE WILL HARNESS THE SUN’S POWER Sundar laid out a vision straight from science fiction, building Google’s future data centers in orbit to capture near-limitless solar energy: “How do we one day have data centers in space so we can better harness the energy from the sun? That’s a hundred trillion times more energy than what we produce on Earth today. In 2027, we’ll take the first step, sending tiny racks of machines aboard satellites to test them out and start scaling. A decade from now, this will be seen as a normal way to build data centers.” Source: Fox, Sundar Pichai

Mario Nawfal

459,653 views • 9 months ago

.Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller on why they are building data centers in space: “In outer space… we have access to solar that's powered 24/7 at a very, very low cost”. Watch the full episode:

.Crusoe CEO Chase Lochmiller on why they are building data centers in space: “In outer space… we have access to solar that's powered 24/7 at a very, very low cost”. Watch the full episode:

The Information

11,293 views • 10 months ago

AI data centers are projected to use more energy than the country of Japan. Trump’s solution is beautiful: Force AI companies to build their own power. Meanwhile, Elon applies to launch one *million* satellites to put AI data centers in space.

AI data centers are projected to use more energy than the country of Japan. Trump’s solution is beautiful: Force AI companies to build their own power. Meanwhile, Elon applies to launch one million satellites to put AI data centers in space.

Peter St Onge, Ph.D.

120,212 views • 6 months ago

Think bigger than data centers. Much bigger. Elon Musk just unveiled SpaceXAI's first AI satellite, a spacecraft designed specifically for running AI workloads in orbit. The satellite features 150 kW of solar power, a 70-meter wingspan and massive radiators to dump heat into space, solving one of the biggest challenges in scaling AI. But this is just the beginning. Musk says truly large-scale orbital AI could eventually require hundreds of gigawatts to a terawatt of power, meaning millions of tons of infrastructure in orbit. The long-term vision isn't AI running in data centers. It's AI running in space at a scale that's impossible on Earth. Elon Musk

Think bigger than data centers. Much bigger. Elon Musk just unveiled SpaceXAI's first AI satellite, a spacecraft designed specifically for running AI workloads in orbit. The satellite features 150 kW of solar power, a 70-meter wingspan and massive radiators to dump heat into space, solving one of the biggest challenges in scaling AI. But this is just the beginning. Musk says truly large-scale orbital AI could eventually require hundreds of gigawatts to a terawatt of power, meaning millions of tons of infrastructure in orbit. The long-term vision isn't AI running in data centers. It's AI running in space at a scale that's impossible on Earth. Elon Musk

Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

19,203 views • 3 months ago

🚨 DeSantis says NO to hyperscale AI data centers! They do NOT create jobs for Americans, but H-1B’s from India! “We are NOT going to allow any cost to be imposed on the people of our communities because of hyperscale data centers. Dead end here. That is not going to happen.”

🚨 DeSantis says NO to hyperscale AI data centers! They do NOT create jobs for Americans, but H-1B’s from India! “We are NOT going to allow any cost to be imposed on the people of our communities because of hyperscale data centers. Dead end here. That is not going to happen.”

Chris Nelson 🏝️🇺🇸

50,449 views • 7 months ago

🚨 JUST IN: JD Vance helps to clarify President Trump's stance on data centers, highlighting his desire for data centers to put power BACK into the grid "I think probably 99% of the backlash to data centers has come in areas where building a data center means higher utility and higher electricity for the people on the ground." "If you build a data center, you should be putting power back into the grid, not taking it out, and if that is happening, I don't think the data centers are that controversial."

🚨 JUST IN: JD Vance helps to clarify President Trump's stance on data centers, highlighting his desire for data centers to put power BACK into the grid "I think probably 99% of the backlash to data centers has come in areas where building a data center means higher utility and higher electricity for the people on the ground." "If you build a data center, you should be putting power back into the grid, not taking it out, and if that is happening, I don't think the data centers are that controversial."

Nick Sortor

217,808 views • 9 days ago

Jordi: Do you think space data centers will provide a meaningful amount of compute for OpenAI in the next two to three years? Sam Altman: No. Jordi: Five years? Sam: No.

Jordi: Do you think space data centers will provide a meaningful amount of compute for OpenAI in the next two to three years? Sam Altman: No. Jordi: Five years? Sam: No.

TBPN

111,501 views • 7 months ago

"The most important thing in the next 3-4 years is data centers in space. In every way, data centers in space, from a first principles perspective, are superior to data centers on earth. In space, you can keep a satellite in the sun 24 hours a day. The sun is 30% more intense, which results in six times more irradiance than on Earth. So you don't need a battery. The cooling in these data centers is incredibly complicated. Space cooling is free. You just put a radiator on the dark side of the satellite. The only thing faster than a laser going through a fiber optic cable is a laser going through absolute vacuum. Link satellites with lasers, and you have a faster and more coherent network than any data center on Earth."

"The most important thing in the next 3-4 years is data centers in space. In every way, data centers in space, from a first principles perspective, are superior to data centers on earth. In space, you can keep a satellite in the sun 24 hours a day. The sun is 30% more intense, which results in six times more irradiance than on Earth. So you don't need a battery. The cooling in these data centers is incredibly complicated. Space cooling is free. You just put a radiator on the dark side of the satellite. The only thing faster than a laser going through a fiber optic cable is a laser going through absolute vacuum. Link satellites with lasers, and you have a faster and more coherent network than any data center on Earth."

Patrick OShaughnessy

8,215,888 views • 9 months ago

The lowest cost place for data centers is space when 300 GW of computer data center you can power and cool in space when you have continuous solar and no batteries needed. Elon Musk

The lowest cost place for data centers is space when 300 GW of computer data center you can power and cool in space when you have continuous solar and no batteries needed. Elon Musk

Marc Benioff

174,421 views • 9 months ago

🚨 Cathie Wood on Elon Musk, SpaceX and xAI: "When Elon started talking about orbital data centers, data centers in space, that's when we got the sense that this was a real possibility, this convergence, it happened more quickly than we expected. I think he'll want to integrate the space opportunity first, but the frustration of building data centers on Earth finally took Elon Musk back to first principles. Could we do this in space? You know, there are no regulations in space. We could do this very quickly, much more quickly. And while we don't think he will have as many gigawatts of computing power up in space as he thinks by the end of the decade, we think he'll be well on his way, by the end of the decade, to mean meaningful computing power. Convergence is a word we've been using in our big ideas for we started in 2017 but the idea of convergence, that word really surfaced within the last five years. And Elon on X said, you know, I think my companies are more convergence candidates than I even appreciated."

🚨 Cathie Wood on Elon Musk, SpaceX and xAI: "When Elon started talking about orbital data centers, data centers in space, that's when we got the sense that this was a real possibility, this convergence, it happened more quickly than we expected. I think he'll want to integrate the space opportunity first, but the frustration of building data centers on Earth finally took Elon Musk back to first principles. Could we do this in space? You know, there are no regulations in space. We could do this very quickly, much more quickly. And while we don't think he will have as many gigawatts of computing power up in space as he thinks by the end of the decade, we think he'll be well on his way, by the end of the decade, to mean meaningful computing power. Convergence is a word we've been using in our big ideas for we started in 2017 but the idea of convergence, that word really surfaced within the last five years. And Elon on X said, you know, I think my companies are more convergence candidates than I even appreciated."

DogeDesigner

41,882 views • 6 months ago

ARK: SPACEX IS NO LONGER A ROCKET COMPANY After the largest IPO in history, the pitch to investors was about AI, not rockets: - SpaceX now tells investors more than 90% of its future market is AI, not space, after acquiring Elon Musk's xAI, its Grok models, and two of the most powerful data centers on Earth - The strategy is vertical integration: own the launch, the data centers, and the AI, with compute already rented to customers like Anthropic, Google, and Reflection AI - ARK estimates that at scale, sub $100 per kilogram launch costs make orbital data centers 25% cheaper to build than on the ground, in constant sunlight with nearly free energy

ARK: SPACEX IS NO LONGER A ROCKET COMPANY After the largest IPO in history, the pitch to investors was about AI, not rockets: - SpaceX now tells investors more than 90% of its future market is AI, not space, after acquiring Elon Musk's xAI, its Grok models, and two of the most powerful data centers on Earth - The strategy is vertical integration: own the launch, the data centers, and the AI, with compute already rented to customers like Anthropic, Google, and Reflection AI - ARK estimates that at scale, sub $100 per kilogram launch costs make orbital data centers 25% cheaper to build than on the ground, in constant sunlight with nearly free energy

Ark Invest Tracker

38,824 views • 1 month ago

NEWS: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced today that the company is working on a new chip/computer for orbital data-centers called Nvidia Vera Rubin Space-1. "It's going to start data-centers out in space. Of course, in space there's no conduction, no convection, there's just radiation, so we have to figure out how to cool these systems out in space, but we got lots of great engineers working on it."

NEWS: Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang announced today that the company is working on a new chip/computer for orbital data-centers called Nvidia Vera Rubin Space-1. "It's going to start data-centers out in space. Of course, in space there's no conduction, no convection, there's just radiation, so we have to figure out how to cool these systems out in space, but we got lots of great engineers working on it."

Sawyer Merritt

457,299 views • 5 months ago

Jim Cramer says $CRWV could play a role in orbital data centers if AI compute eventually moves to space. He said CoreWeave has one of the best handles on building data centers quickly making it a name to watch if the space-compute thesis becomes real.

Jim Cramer says $CRWV could play a role in orbital data centers if AI compute eventually moves to space. He said CoreWeave has one of the best handles on building data centers quickly making it a name to watch if the space-compute thesis becomes real.

Shay Boloor

181,670 views • 2 months ago

Trump: You can fit 25 Pentagons into some of these data centers. And there's very little disruption. Data centers are incredible to look at

Trump: You can fit 25 Pentagons into some of these data centers. And there's very little disruption. Data centers are incredible to look at

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54,255 views • 1 month ago