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BREAKING: SpaceX is building Starbase, Louisiana, a $100 billion spaceport on 130,000 acres. Governor Jeff Landry announced the deal Tuesday in Abbeville. The site sits near Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish on Louisiana's Gulf coast, on land that used to belong to ExxonMobil. The state calls it the largest capital investment in Louisiana history. It is set to bring 3,000 direct jobs, with construction starting in 2027 and the first launch targeted as early as 2029. Starbase, Louisiana is built to fly Starship again and again. It fits SpaceX's goal of reaching up to 1,000 rocket launches a year worldwide. SpaceX called it a way to "open a pathway to the stars for humanity." Landry said "Starbase, Louisiana will unlock that future." Source: SpaceX, WBRZ, KATC, Governor Jeff Landry (Governor of Louisiana)
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BREAKING: SpaceX is building Starbase, Louisiana, a $100 billion spaceport on 130,000 acres. Governor Jeff Landry announced the deal Tuesday in Abbeville. The site sits near Pecan Island in Vermilion Parish on Louisiana's Gulf coast, on land that used to belong to ExxonMobil. The state calls it the largest capital investment in Louisiana history. It is set to bring 3,000 direct jobs, with construction starting in 2027 and the first launch targeted as early as 2029. Starbase, Louisiana is built to fly Starship again and again. It fits SpaceX's goal of reaching up to 1,000 rocket launches a year worldwide. SpaceX called it a way to "open a pathway to the stars for humanity." Landry said "Starbase, Louisiana will unlock that future." Source: SpaceX, WBRZ, KATC, Governor Jeff Landry (Governor of Louisiana)

Muskonomy

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Thousands of jobs are coming to a town of roughly 100 people! 🚨 SpaceX is in the final stages of a deal for a major Starship spaceport in coastal Louisiana. • ~130,000 acres of marshland near Pecan Island, Vermilion Parish • 18-mile stretch of Gulf-accessible coast, sparsely populated • Expected to create thousands of jobs • Tied to a settlement of coastal lawsuits involving ExxonMobil land • Announcement expected this month from Gov. Jeff Landry The site sits midway between SpaceX’s Texas and Florida facilities and offers deep-water barge access.
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Thousands of jobs are coming to a town of roughly 100 people! 🚨 SpaceX is in the final stages of a deal for a major Starship spaceport in coastal Louisiana. • ~130,000 acres of marshland near Pecan Island, Vermilion Parish • 18-mile stretch of Gulf-accessible coast, sparsely populated • Expected to create thousands of jobs • Tied to a settlement of coastal lawsuits involving ExxonMobil land • Announcement expected this month from Gov. Jeff Landry The site sits midway between SpaceX’s Texas and Florida facilities and offers deep-water barge access.

Joe Hansen

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WATCH: SpaceX released a documentary of Elon Musk walking its new Louisiana spaceport. It is the first time SpaceX has shown the site up close, with Elon Musk on the ground in the Gulf Coast marshes of Vermilion Parish, just south of Pecan Island. The message is that SpaceX is ready to build at scale. The company knows how to make rockets, make them fast and fly them thousands of times. As the video put it, "none of that matters if you don't have a place to do it." Louisiana is that place. This was not a quick decision. SpaceX says it spent about seven years searching for a high-rate launch site. There are only a few spots on Earth where you can fly a fully reusable Starship thousands of times a year. This plan has been in the works for a long time. Musk is committed. He went to the site himself and laid out the vision in person. He said the spaceport will bring "10,000 really exciting jobs to Louisiana." The state counts 3,000 of those as direct jobs. At Starbase in Texas, 70 percent of the workforce is local. SpaceX expects the same here. Source: SpaceX documentary with Elon Musk
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WATCH: SpaceX released a documentary of Elon Musk walking its new Louisiana spaceport. It is the first time SpaceX has shown the site up close, with Elon Musk on the ground in the Gulf Coast marshes of Vermilion Parish, just south of Pecan Island. The message is that SpaceX is ready to build at scale. The company knows how to make rockets, make them fast and fly them thousands of times. As the video put it, "none of that matters if you don't have a place to do it." Louisiana is that place. This was not a quick decision. SpaceX says it spent about seven years searching for a high-rate launch site. There are only a few spots on Earth where you can fly a fully reusable Starship thousands of times a year. This plan has been in the works for a long time. Musk is committed. He went to the site himself and laid out the vision in person. He said the spaceport will bring "10,000 really exciting jobs to Louisiana." The state counts 3,000 of those as direct jobs. At Starbase in Texas, 70 percent of the workforce is local. SpaceX expects the same here. Source: SpaceX documentary with Elon Musk

Muskonomy

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GOOD NEWS 🚨 SpaceX has officially announced plans for a monumental new spaceport called Starbase Louisiana, and it looks like it is going to be one hell of a launch site 🚀 Representing a staggering investment of over $100 billion, this massive facility will span roughly 125,000 acres of coastal marshland in Vermilion Parish near Pecan Island, about 50 miles south of Lafayette. This project is fundamentally designed from day one to be the largest spaceport on Earth. At full buildout, the campus is expected to feature five launch complexes with two pads each, eventually hosting more than a dozen launch towers. Elon Musk confirmed that the facility is built to handle an unprecedented launch cadence of more than 30 Starship flights per day, meaning it could eventually support thousands of spaceflights a year. To realistically sustain that kind of rapid-fire launch schedule, Starbase Louisiana will operate as a fully self-sustaining mega-hub. The site will feature its own on-site propellant production and storage farms, dedicated power generation, deep-water shipping capabilities, vehicle processing facilities, and a private airport. SpaceX is even planning to construct residential housing directly on the sprawling campus for employees and their families. Construction on the new site is slated to begin in 2027, with the highly ambitious goal of launching the first Starship from the Louisiana Gulf Coast as early as 2029. The economic impact will be massive, initially creating over 3,000 direct, permanent jobs with an average annual salary of around $92,600. When factoring in indirect employment, the total number of jobs created is expected to easily push past the 10,000 mark. Beyond the aerospace infrastructure, SpaceX is making major commitments to environmental conservation in an area where the local shoreline currently erodes between 3.3 and 23 feet per year. The company is actively partnering with state and federal agencies to build wave-reducing breakwaters, rebuild thousands of acres of marshland using dredged sediment, and rigorously preserve the high-value coastal habitat for migratory birds and local wildlife. For space enthusiasts, the best part might just be the access. Instead of a locked-down industrial zone, Elon Musk explicitly promised that Starbase Louisiana will be designed with a visitor experience in mind, allowing the public to come out and watch these massive Starships fly, much like the legendary setup at Cape Canaveral.
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GOOD NEWS 🚨 SpaceX has officially announced plans for a monumental new spaceport called Starbase Louisiana, and it looks like it is going to be one hell of a launch site 🚀 Representing a staggering investment of over $100 billion, this massive facility will span roughly 125,000 acres of coastal marshland in Vermilion Parish near Pecan Island, about 50 miles south of Lafayette. This project is fundamentally designed from day one to be the largest spaceport on Earth. At full buildout, the campus is expected to feature five launch complexes with two pads each, eventually hosting more than a dozen launch towers. Elon Musk confirmed that the facility is built to handle an unprecedented launch cadence of more than 30 Starship flights per day, meaning it could eventually support thousands of spaceflights a year. To realistically sustain that kind of rapid-fire launch schedule, Starbase Louisiana will operate as a fully self-sustaining mega-hub. The site will feature its own on-site propellant production and storage farms, dedicated power generation, deep-water shipping capabilities, vehicle processing facilities, and a private airport. SpaceX is even planning to construct residential housing directly on the sprawling campus for employees and their families. Construction on the new site is slated to begin in 2027, with the highly ambitious goal of launching the first Starship from the Louisiana Gulf Coast as early as 2029. The economic impact will be massive, initially creating over 3,000 direct, permanent jobs with an average annual salary of around $92,600. When factoring in indirect employment, the total number of jobs created is expected to easily push past the 10,000 mark. Beyond the aerospace infrastructure, SpaceX is making major commitments to environmental conservation in an area where the local shoreline currently erodes between 3.3 and 23 feet per year. The company is actively partnering with state and federal agencies to build wave-reducing breakwaters, rebuild thousands of acres of marshland using dredged sediment, and rigorously preserve the high-value coastal habitat for migratory birds and local wildlife. For space enthusiasts, the best part might just be the access. Instead of a locked-down industrial zone, Elon Musk explicitly promised that Starbase Louisiana will be designed with a visitor experience in mind, allowing the public to come out and watch these massive Starships fly, much like the legendary setup at Cape Canaveral.

Ming

14,032 görüntüleme • 7 gün önce

Governor Jeff Landry talks about SpaceX’s historic Louisiana expansion: “The SpaceX folks are just unbelievable...The President issued an executive order that basically stated that we wanted the country to get to 1,000 launches by 2030...Elon Musk answered that. He understands that in order for us to beat China, we have to build launch sites of this scale. And the great thing about it in Louisiana is it is going to create enormous opportunities in a state that always desperately has needed it.”
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Governor Jeff Landry talks about SpaceX’s historic Louisiana expansion: “The SpaceX folks are just unbelievable...The President issued an executive order that basically stated that we wanted the country to get to 1,000 launches by 2030...Elon Musk answered that. He understands that in order for us to beat China, we have to build launch sites of this scale. And the great thing about it in Louisiana is it is going to create enormous opportunities in a state that always desperately has needed it.”

DogeDesigner

54,394 görüntüleme • 6 gün önce

Cathie Wood on Tesla and SpaceX: "This will be considered as the year of the RoboTaxi. We're also learning more about Elon Musk's plans for the moon, for solar powered data centers in Space, and for Mars, and you'll see a lot of what we expect for the next 20 to 25 years in our open source SpaceX model that came out around mid year and caused quite a stir. We also had a great year in terms of space exploration. SpaceX made all kinds of announcements and is delivering service and Starlink throughout the world."
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Cathie Wood on Tesla and SpaceX: "This will be considered as the year of the RoboTaxi. We're also learning more about Elon Musk's plans for the moon, for solar powered data centers in Space, and for Mars, and you'll see a lot of what we expect for the next 20 to 25 years in our open source SpaceX model that came out around mid year and caused quite a stir. We also had a great year in terms of space exploration. SpaceX made all kinds of announcements and is delivering service and Starlink throughout the world."

DogeDesigner

1,024,941 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce

Elon Musk unveils plans for a Tesla and SpaceX factory the size of a small city Tesla and SpaceX plan to build the giant Terafab facility in Texas, covering around 9.3 million square meters near Houston. The companies want to manufacture chips and microchips there for cars and robots. If built at the announced scale, Terafab would become the largest building in the world. The project is estimated to cost around $119 billion. SpaceX says it plans to reduce the environmental impact by using reservoir water instead of groundwater, building its own wastewater treatment facilities, and using recycled materials wherever possible. Construction timelines have not yet been announced.
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Elon Musk unveils plans for a Tesla and SpaceX factory the size of a small city Tesla and SpaceX plan to build the giant Terafab facility in Texas, covering around 9.3 million square meters near Houston. The companies want to manufacture chips and microchips there for cars and robots. If built at the announced scale, Terafab would become the largest building in the world. The project is estimated to cost around $119 billion. SpaceX says it plans to reduce the environmental impact by using reservoir water instead of groundwater, building its own wastewater treatment facilities, and using recycled materials wherever possible. Construction timelines have not yet been announced.

NEXTA

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Elon on what it actually takes to make life multiplanetary: “If you want to go there and actually build a self-growing civilization, you need serious tonnage” That is the scale SpaceX is building for Not a few people visiting Mars and coming back A real civilization And Starbase, Louisiana is going to be a huge part of making that possible SpaceX expects to bring more than 10,000 exciting jobs to Louisiana as the company builds out the infrastructure needed for massive Starship operations
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Elon on what it actually takes to make life multiplanetary: “If you want to go there and actually build a self-growing civilization, you need serious tonnage” That is the scale SpaceX is building for Not a few people visiting Mars and coming back A real civilization And Starbase, Louisiana is going to be a huge part of making that possible SpaceX expects to bring more than 10,000 exciting jobs to Louisiana as the company builds out the infrastructure needed for massive Starship operations

X Freeze

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It’s actually happening: Video footage of construction for SpaceX’s project to put AI Data Centers in orbit These Data Centers in space won’t take up earths resources like electricity and water because they will use solar power and be cooled by space “The SpaceX campus in Bastrop County is pushing for an ambitious project that would build what it's calling the AI1 satellite, a data center in space. There are visible signs construction is underway after the tech company announced this large expansion project where the Starlink facility currently sits it's being called the GigaSat factory — The company plans to launch these satellites into Earth's orbit with SpaceX Starships. The company says this tech will be powered by solar energy, and the cold temperatures in space will keep it from overheating” The goal is large scale meaningful production by the end of 2027, supporting an annualized rate of ~1 GW of orbital AI compute. This means thousands of satellites per year, with even more to scale much higher afterward
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It’s actually happening: Video footage of construction for SpaceX’s project to put AI Data Centers in orbit These Data Centers in space won’t take up earths resources like electricity and water because they will use solar power and be cooled by space “The SpaceX campus in Bastrop County is pushing for an ambitious project that would build what it's calling the AI1 satellite, a data center in space. There are visible signs construction is underway after the tech company announced this large expansion project where the Starlink facility currently sits it's being called the GigaSat factory — The company plans to launch these satellites into Earth's orbit with SpaceX Starships. The company says this tech will be powered by solar energy, and the cold temperatures in space will keep it from overheating” The goal is large scale meaningful production by the end of 2027, supporting an annualized rate of ~1 GW of orbital AI compute. This means thousands of satellites per year, with even more to scale much higher afterward

Wall Street Apes

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SPACEX: I visited Pecan Island in Louisiana's Vermilion Parish. The 136,000-acre site, owned by ExxonMobil and Vermilion Corporation, is under consideration by SpaceX for their next spaceport. Vermilion Corporation owns an unused dock on Freshwater Bayou at the mouth of the Gulf of America. This location would allow SpaceX to barge Super Heavy Boosters and Starships from Starbase. Farther north lies the Freshwater City public boat ramp and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Freshwater Lock, which connects to the Intracoastal Waterway. I flew over the area closest to the port. The land appears stable. Note that the full 212-square-mile site extends across the entire area visible east of the port
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SPACEX: I visited Pecan Island in Louisiana's Vermilion Parish. The 136,000-acre site, owned by ExxonMobil and Vermilion Corporation, is under consideration by SpaceX for their next spaceport. Vermilion Corporation owns an unused dock on Freshwater Bayou at the mouth of the Gulf of America. This location would allow SpaceX to barge Super Heavy Boosters and Starships from Starbase. Farther north lies the Freshwater City public boat ramp and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Freshwater Lock, which connects to the Intracoastal Waterway. I flew over the area closest to the port. The land appears stable. Note that the full 212-square-mile site extends across the entire area visible east of the port

S.E. Robinson, Jr.

95,976 görüntüleme • 3 ay önce

The California Coastal Commission has already made up its mind that it would deny SpaceX a coastal development permit (CDP) if SpaceX applies for one – It is a foregone conclusion. The problem for the Commission is that the US Space Force has already agreed to ALL of the Commission's demands regarding environmental safeguards and monitoring at Vandenberg for the increased number of SpaceX launches. Now, the Commission realizes that if it votes in favor of the consistency certification of the US Space Force, it would be impossible to then find a plausible environmental reason to deny SpaceX a CDP that's based on the exact same parameters as the US Space Force's consistency certification. This is an overt act of political bias by the Commission against Elon Musk and SpaceX. This is why SpaceX has filed a federal lawsuit against the Commission to seek an order that would bar the Commission from regulating its rocket launch program at Vandenberg. This is important because the Commission will try to force SpaceX to apply for a CDP via enforcement action – An application for a CDP that the Commission has no intention whatsoever of granting.
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The California Coastal Commission has already made up its mind that it would deny SpaceX a coastal development permit (CDP) if SpaceX applies for one – It is a foregone conclusion. The problem for the Commission is that the US Space Force has already agreed to ALL of the Commission's demands regarding environmental safeguards and monitoring at Vandenberg for the increased number of SpaceX launches. Now, the Commission realizes that if it votes in favor of the consistency certification of the US Space Force, it would be impossible to then find a plausible environmental reason to deny SpaceX a CDP that's based on the exact same parameters as the US Space Force's consistency certification. This is an overt act of political bias by the Commission against Elon Musk and SpaceX. This is why SpaceX has filed a federal lawsuit against the Commission to seek an order that would bar the Commission from regulating its rocket launch program at Vandenberg. This is important because the Commission will try to force SpaceX to apply for a CDP via enforcement action – An application for a CDP that the Commission has no intention whatsoever of granting.

ALEX

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So let's put this all together. Stripe 's been lurking in crypto for about a decade but stayed quiet. Owned 2% of the XLM supply before half of it was burned. Stripe does the backend of X payments. X Money is about to come out. Has Elon Musk been lurking too? Who else has been lurking? The Paypal Mafia? Plans within plans within plans. We've watched the entire industry put a spotlight on Bitcoin and Ethereum for a decade but XRP and XLM have always been more efficient than any of them.
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So let's put this all together. Stripe 's been lurking in crypto for about a decade but stayed quiet. Owned 2% of the XLM supply before half of it was burned. Stripe does the backend of X payments. X Money is about to come out. Has Elon Musk been lurking too? Who else has been lurking? The Paypal Mafia? Plans within plans within plans. We've watched the entire industry put a spotlight on Bitcoin and Ethereum for a decade but XRP and XLM have always been more efficient than any of them.

Digital Asset Investor

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META’s Louisiana Data Center deal exposed “It's one of the biggest data centers on the planet. The site could fit 173 Superdomes. It'll use enough electricity to power 2 million homes. META is only sharing in the costs for the first 15 years of its operation” “What happens at year 16? I'll spoil it. More of those costs will get added to your utility bill. Prices will be driven up” “The majority of the details are being kept secret, meaning this very well could fuel higher electric bills for decades to come. The fourth wave of exploitation will be in your water and will come from your wallet. This is not a good deal for Louisiana and it's not a good deal for anyone except Entergy and META” “ must demand accountability from Meta, Entergy, the Public Service Commission who regulates Entergy, and all the state elected officials that helps put this deal together.”
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META’s Louisiana Data Center deal exposed “It's one of the biggest data centers on the planet. The site could fit 173 Superdomes. It'll use enough electricity to power 2 million homes. META is only sharing in the costs for the first 15 years of its operation” “What happens at year 16? I'll spoil it. More of those costs will get added to your utility bill. Prices will be driven up” “The majority of the details are being kept secret, meaning this very well could fuel higher electric bills for decades to come. The fourth wave of exploitation will be in your water and will come from your wallet. This is not a good deal for Louisiana and it's not a good deal for anyone except Entergy and META” “ must demand accountability from Meta, Entergy, the Public Service Commission who regulates Entergy, and all the state elected officials that helps put this deal together.”

Wall Street Apes

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🚨 Elon Musk's reported Terafab project could be bigger than most people realize. 👀 Jo Bhakdi says the planned Tesla-SpaceX facility could reach 100 million square feet, about 10 times larger than Giga Texas, with a goal of producing around 1 terawatt of AI chips per year. He also highlighted Elon’s vision for AI in space, with plans to rapidly increase compute power in orbit over the next few years. If these plans become reality, SpaceX and Tesla may not just be building products. They could be building the infrastructure that powers the future of AI. $TSLA $SPCX
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🚨 Elon Musk's reported Terafab project could be bigger than most people realize. 👀 Jo Bhakdi says the planned Tesla-SpaceX facility could reach 100 million square feet, about 10 times larger than Giga Texas, with a goal of producing around 1 terawatt of AI chips per year. He also highlighted Elon’s vision for AI in space, with plans to rapidly increase compute power in orbit over the next few years. If these plans become reality, SpaceX and Tesla may not just be building products. They could be building the infrastructure that powers the future of AI. $TSLA $SPCX

Herbert Ong

23,227 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

Elon Musk just explained why the SpaceX IPO is an energy story and the energy constraint is why he believes space becomes the only viable path for AI to scale (Save this). The argument he is making is one of the most important and least understood things happening in technology right now. The United States currently consumes roughly 500 gigawatts of electricity on average. To double that capacity which is what continued AI expansion on the current terrestrial trajectory would eventually require would mean building as many power plants as currently exist in the entire country. He is not arguing that this is technically impossible, just that communities are not willing to accept it, that permitting timelines make it unrealistic, and that the hard ceiling on Earth based power generation means the expansion of AI compute will eventually hit a wall that no amount of capital can overcome on the ground. His observation is that in space, that wall does not exist. A solar panel in orbit produces roughly five times more power than the same panel on Earth, operates in continuous sunlight uninterrupted by weather or nighttime, and benefits from the vacuum of space as a completely passive cooling system meaning the two largest operating costs of any terrestrial data center, energy and cooling, are effectively eliminated. He then said that you could theoretically increase harnessed energy by a factor of one million and still be using less than a millionth of the sun's total energy output. This is the underlying physics of why SpaceX filed with the FCC to launch up to one million solar powered AI satellites, and why they described that constellation in their own filing as a first step toward becoming a Kardashev Type II civilization capable of harnessing the full power of the sun. To understand what makes this credible rather than visionary, you need to understand what SpaceX already controls that no other company on earth possesses. Starship, once operating at full cadence, can deliver 100 to 150 tons of payload to orbit per launch, at a target cost per kilogram that is an order of magnitude lower than any existing vehicle. Musk's stated ambition is to scale Starship to 10,000 to 30,000 launches per year, a frequency that would allow the deployment of orbital compute infrastructure at a pace that is currently unimaginable with any existing rocket. He told xAI staff earlier this year that achieving space-based AI at scale will eventually require manufacturing facilities on the moon, building solar panels and heat dissipation structures from lunar silicon and aluminum, and launching them into orbit from there rather than from Earth's surface because the moon's lower gravity makes the economics of launch dramatically more favorable. SpaceX's S-1 filing explicitly states that its launch capabilities could enable massive AI compute satellite constellations with the potential for millions of satellites for orbital data centers, with the first launch potentially occurring as soon as 2028. Google and Alphabet are already in advanced talks with SpaceX about deploying space-based data centers. Starcloud, a startup running Nvidia H100 GPUs in orbit, has already validated that high-performance AI inference workloads can operate in space, with plans to scale to five gigawatts of orbital compute power by 2035. This is why Musk believes the cost crossover happens in two to three years because SpaceX's launch cost trajectory intersects with the accelerating energy constraint on the ground in a way that makes space genuinely cheaper, faster, and less regulated at exactly the moment AI demand is hitting its hardest physical limits.
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Elon Musk just explained why the SpaceX IPO is an energy story and the energy constraint is why he believes space becomes the only viable path for AI to scale (Save this). The argument he is making is one of the most important and least understood things happening in technology right now. The United States currently consumes roughly 500 gigawatts of electricity on average. To double that capacity which is what continued AI expansion on the current terrestrial trajectory would eventually require would mean building as many power plants as currently exist in the entire country. He is not arguing that this is technically impossible, just that communities are not willing to accept it, that permitting timelines make it unrealistic, and that the hard ceiling on Earth based power generation means the expansion of AI compute will eventually hit a wall that no amount of capital can overcome on the ground. His observation is that in space, that wall does not exist. A solar panel in orbit produces roughly five times more power than the same panel on Earth, operates in continuous sunlight uninterrupted by weather or nighttime, and benefits from the vacuum of space as a completely passive cooling system meaning the two largest operating costs of any terrestrial data center, energy and cooling, are effectively eliminated. He then said that you could theoretically increase harnessed energy by a factor of one million and still be using less than a millionth of the sun's total energy output. This is the underlying physics of why SpaceX filed with the FCC to launch up to one million solar powered AI satellites, and why they described that constellation in their own filing as a first step toward becoming a Kardashev Type II civilization capable of harnessing the full power of the sun. To understand what makes this credible rather than visionary, you need to understand what SpaceX already controls that no other company on earth possesses. Starship, once operating at full cadence, can deliver 100 to 150 tons of payload to orbit per launch, at a target cost per kilogram that is an order of magnitude lower than any existing vehicle. Musk's stated ambition is to scale Starship to 10,000 to 30,000 launches per year, a frequency that would allow the deployment of orbital compute infrastructure at a pace that is currently unimaginable with any existing rocket. He told xAI staff earlier this year that achieving space-based AI at scale will eventually require manufacturing facilities on the moon, building solar panels and heat dissipation structures from lunar silicon and aluminum, and launching them into orbit from there rather than from Earth's surface because the moon's lower gravity makes the economics of launch dramatically more favorable. SpaceX's S-1 filing explicitly states that its launch capabilities could enable massive AI compute satellite constellations with the potential for millions of satellites for orbital data centers, with the first launch potentially occurring as soon as 2028. Google and Alphabet are already in advanced talks with SpaceX about deploying space-based data centers. Starcloud, a startup running Nvidia H100 GPUs in orbit, has already validated that high-performance AI inference workloads can operate in space, with plans to scale to five gigawatts of orbital compute power by 2035. This is why Musk believes the cost crossover happens in two to three years because SpaceX's launch cost trajectory intersects with the accelerating energy constraint on the ground in a way that makes space genuinely cheaper, faster, and less regulated at exactly the moment AI demand is hitting its hardest physical limits.

Milk Road AI

12,738 görüntüleme • 2 ay önce

The first question I asked Elon Musk: What’s the point of sending GPUs into space? The whole idea behind orbital data centers is that if the launch costs continue to drop, it will become cheaper to put GPUs in orbit than to build power plants on Earth. The problem with this argument is that energy is only about 15% of a datacenter’s lifetime cost. The chips themselves are around 70%. And you still have to launch those to space! Elon kept returning to one point over and over again: It will simply not be physically possible to scale power production to the scale needed for AI on Earth. He kept pointing out the bottlenecks we’ve already run into on Earth: You can’t plug into the utilities - the interconnect queues are too long. You can’t do behind-the-meter natural gas and generate power yourself - lead times for turbines stretch past 2030. You can’t do solar on Earth, because of permits, and because of the tariffs. For it to make economical sense to shift compute to space, all of the following things would need to be true: - Power generation on Earth hits a ceiling, or AI demand outstrips every terrestrial option (for context, 1 TW of solar power is only 1% of the land area of the US, and AI currently only uses about 20 GW globally). - Chip production scales faster than power generation (because Elon builds TeraFab). It would be surprising if building and placing solar panels turned out to be harder than scaling semiconductor manufacturing. - Starship reaches thousands of launches per year. In that world, Elon wins the AI race outright. SpaceX is the only entity that can launch at that scale. xAI would have unlimited power. Everyone else will be stuck fighting over grid interconnects and turbine orders. And if those 3 conditions aren’t met? Well, on Earth, xAI is just gonna be one of the pack anyways - and there’s no market for the 4th best AI model. Elon’s comparative advantage was never going to be navigating utility interconnect queues or filing permits faster than Google. His advantage is SpaceX. So why not just bet on the world where SpaceX becomes the kingmaker? I asked Elon what that world looks like. 100 GW = 10,000 starship launches, and he wants to do more than that every year by 2030. That’s one starship launch every hour.
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The first question I asked Elon Musk: What’s the point of sending GPUs into space? The whole idea behind orbital data centers is that if the launch costs continue to drop, it will become cheaper to put GPUs in orbit than to build power plants on Earth. The problem with this argument is that energy is only about 15% of a datacenter’s lifetime cost. The chips themselves are around 70%. And you still have to launch those to space! Elon kept returning to one point over and over again: It will simply not be physically possible to scale power production to the scale needed for AI on Earth. He kept pointing out the bottlenecks we’ve already run into on Earth: You can’t plug into the utilities - the interconnect queues are too long. You can’t do behind-the-meter natural gas and generate power yourself - lead times for turbines stretch past 2030. You can’t do solar on Earth, because of permits, and because of the tariffs. For it to make economical sense to shift compute to space, all of the following things would need to be true: - Power generation on Earth hits a ceiling, or AI demand outstrips every terrestrial option (for context, 1 TW of solar power is only 1% of the land area of the US, and AI currently only uses about 20 GW globally). - Chip production scales faster than power generation (because Elon builds TeraFab). It would be surprising if building and placing solar panels turned out to be harder than scaling semiconductor manufacturing. - Starship reaches thousands of launches per year. In that world, Elon wins the AI race outright. SpaceX is the only entity that can launch at that scale. xAI would have unlimited power. Everyone else will be stuck fighting over grid interconnects and turbine orders. And if those 3 conditions aren’t met? Well, on Earth, xAI is just gonna be one of the pack anyways - and there’s no market for the 4th best AI model. Elon’s comparative advantage was never going to be navigating utility interconnect queues or filing permits faster than Google. His advantage is SpaceX. So why not just bet on the world where SpaceX becomes the kingmaker? I asked Elon what that world looks like. 100 GW = 10,000 starship launches, and he wants to do more than that every year by 2030. That’s one starship launch every hour.

Dwarkesh Patel

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Katherine Boyle says SpaceX’s legacy will be the thousands of companies that spawn from the school of Elon Musk: "What we've learned from the SpaceX story is that these kinds of companies can be built." "It is one of the most important companies in America. It's beloved by Americans across the country for what it's been able to achieve." "The legacy of SpaceX is going to be hundreds, if not thousands of companies—people who've gone to the school of Elon Musk, they've learned manufacturing and they've built companies, and built products in a way that they can take to new companies in manufacturing and defense, and drones and hypersonics—all of these other categories that SpaceX doesn't do." "We're incredibly excited about SpaceX. We're incredibly excited for what it's achieved for the American people and what it's going to lead to over the next 25 years." Katherine Boyle on FOX Business
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Katherine Boyle says SpaceX’s legacy will be the thousands of companies that spawn from the school of Elon Musk: "What we've learned from the SpaceX story is that these kinds of companies can be built." "It is one of the most important companies in America. It's beloved by Americans across the country for what it's been able to achieve." "The legacy of SpaceX is going to be hundreds, if not thousands of companies—people who've gone to the school of Elon Musk, they've learned manufacturing and they've built companies, and built products in a way that they can take to new companies in manufacturing and defense, and drones and hypersonics—all of these other categories that SpaceX doesn't do." "We're incredibly excited about SpaceX. We're incredibly excited for what it's achieved for the American people and what it's going to lead to over the next 25 years." Katherine Boyle on FOX Business

a16z

658,981 görüntüleme • 5 ay önce

Elon Musk just confirmed the most INSANE IPO in history. SpaceX is going public in 2026. $1.5 TRILLION valuation. Raising $30+ billion. That's the biggest IPO ever made. Beating Saudi Aramco's $29 billion record from 2019. But here's what everyone's missing: This isn't about space tourism or Mars missions. Elon is literally about to win the entire AI race. And 99% of people have no idea how... Here's the problem killing every AI company right now: POWER. Oracle just reported earnings. They burned through $12 BILLION in one quarter building data centers. Their free cash flow? NEGATIVE $10 billion. Revenue missed estimates. Stock crashed 11%. Microsoft, Amazon, Google all scrambling to find enough electricity for AI training. The brutal math: The US generates 490 gigawatts of total power. AI is projected to need 123 gigawatts by 2035. That's a QUARTER of the entire electrical grid. Just for artificial intelligence. Goldman Sachs says AI energy demand could jump 165% by 2030. There is literally not enough power on Earth to run AI at the scale these companies are promising. Every data center needs massive cooling systems. Billions of gallons of water per year. Insane energy costs. And the infrastructure can't keep up. Elon's solution? Stop building on Earth entirely. SpaceX is building data centers in SPACE. Not a concept. Not 10 years out. Literally starting in 2026. They're upgrading Starlink V3 satellites to carry AI computing chips. Each satellite gets 24/7 solar power. No clouds. No night. No weather disruptions. No grid bottlenecks. And the insane part is that Starship can deliver 300 to 500 gigawatts of solar-powered AI satellites into orbit every single year. At 300 gigawatts per year, the AI computing power in space would exceed the entire U.S. economy's total electricity consumption within two years. Just from satellites. Processing in orbit. While Oracle is begging banks for loans to finish data centers and OpenAI is stuck in circular funding arrangements with Microsoft, Elon already owns everything: The rockets. The satellites. The launch infrastructure. The AI company (xAI). He doesn't need to ask utilities for permission. Doesn't need grid approvals from local governments. Doesn't need to build nuclear plants or wait for clean energy. He just launches. And everyone else is scrambling to catch up: Jeff Bezos sees it. Blue Origin announced they're building their own orbital data centers. Google just launched "Project Suncatcher" with plans to deploy AI satellites by 2027. Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, literally BOUGHT an entire rocket company (Relativity Space) just to compete in this space. But they're all 3+ years behind Elon. SpaceX already has 6,000+ Starlink satellites in orbit. The infrastructure is built. The $30 billion from the IPO? Going straight into scaling orbital compute. SpaceX revenue is jumping from $15 billion in 2025 to $24 billion in 2026. Most of that from Starlink. Now add space-based AI infrastructure on top. Here's why this matters: Whoever controls orbital computing controls the AI revolution. And there's only ONE company on Earth with fully reusable rockets that can launch at the scale required. Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, called space data centers "a dream." Translation: Nvidia is screwed if Elon actually pulls this off. Because if SpaceX succeeds, every AI company on the planet becomes Elon's customer. OpenAI needs compute? Running on SpaceX satellites. Google needs more capacity? Renting orbital infrastructure. Microsoft needs power? Paying SpaceX for launch and compute access. Elon won't just be in the AI race. He'll own the entire track everyone else is running on. The $1.5 trillion valuation sounds crazy until you realize what he's actually building. It's not a rocket company. It's the infrastructure layer for the next 50 years of computing. People calling it overvalued have no idea what's coming.
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Elon Musk just confirmed the most INSANE IPO in history. SpaceX is going public in 2026. $1.5 TRILLION valuation. Raising $30+ billion. That's the biggest IPO ever made. Beating Saudi Aramco's $29 billion record from 2019. But here's what everyone's missing: This isn't about space tourism or Mars missions. Elon is literally about to win the entire AI race. And 99% of people have no idea how... Here's the problem killing every AI company right now: POWER. Oracle just reported earnings. They burned through $12 BILLION in one quarter building data centers. Their free cash flow? NEGATIVE $10 billion. Revenue missed estimates. Stock crashed 11%. Microsoft, Amazon, Google all scrambling to find enough electricity for AI training. The brutal math: The US generates 490 gigawatts of total power. AI is projected to need 123 gigawatts by 2035. That's a QUARTER of the entire electrical grid. Just for artificial intelligence. Goldman Sachs says AI energy demand could jump 165% by 2030. There is literally not enough power on Earth to run AI at the scale these companies are promising. Every data center needs massive cooling systems. Billions of gallons of water per year. Insane energy costs. And the infrastructure can't keep up. Elon's solution? Stop building on Earth entirely. SpaceX is building data centers in SPACE. Not a concept. Not 10 years out. Literally starting in 2026. They're upgrading Starlink V3 satellites to carry AI computing chips. Each satellite gets 24/7 solar power. No clouds. No night. No weather disruptions. No grid bottlenecks. And the insane part is that Starship can deliver 300 to 500 gigawatts of solar-powered AI satellites into orbit every single year. At 300 gigawatts per year, the AI computing power in space would exceed the entire U.S. economy's total electricity consumption within two years. Just from satellites. Processing in orbit. While Oracle is begging banks for loans to finish data centers and OpenAI is stuck in circular funding arrangements with Microsoft, Elon already owns everything: The rockets. The satellites. The launch infrastructure. The AI company (xAI). He doesn't need to ask utilities for permission. Doesn't need grid approvals from local governments. Doesn't need to build nuclear plants or wait for clean energy. He just launches. And everyone else is scrambling to catch up: Jeff Bezos sees it. Blue Origin announced they're building their own orbital data centers. Google just launched "Project Suncatcher" with plans to deploy AI satellites by 2027. Eric Schmidt, the former CEO of Google, literally BOUGHT an entire rocket company (Relativity Space) just to compete in this space. But they're all 3+ years behind Elon. SpaceX already has 6,000+ Starlink satellites in orbit. The infrastructure is built. The $30 billion from the IPO? Going straight into scaling orbital compute. SpaceX revenue is jumping from $15 billion in 2025 to $24 billion in 2026. Most of that from Starlink. Now add space-based AI infrastructure on top. Here's why this matters: Whoever controls orbital computing controls the AI revolution. And there's only ONE company on Earth with fully reusable rockets that can launch at the scale required. Jensen Huang, Nvidia's CEO, called space data centers "a dream." Translation: Nvidia is screwed if Elon actually pulls this off. Because if SpaceX succeeds, every AI company on the planet becomes Elon's customer. OpenAI needs compute? Running on SpaceX satellites. Google needs more capacity? Renting orbital infrastructure. Microsoft needs power? Paying SpaceX for launch and compute access. Elon won't just be in the AI race. He'll own the entire track everyone else is running on. The $1.5 trillion valuation sounds crazy until you realize what he's actually building. It's not a rocket company. It's the infrastructure layer for the next 50 years of computing. People calling it overvalued have no idea what's coming.

Ricardo

2,908,952 görüntüleme • 8 ay önce

SpaceX has officially acquired xAI and this is a HUGE deal, probably bigger than most people realize. SpaceX + xAI together are about to build a single, vertically integrated engine that connects AI, rockets, space based internet, and real time information all into one unified system. At the core of this announcement is the fact that AI can’t scale forever on Earth. Think about it. Data centers are already running into hard limits with power, cooling, land, and environmental cost. On top of this, global AI electricity demand is exploding, and doing all of this on the ground just doesn’t scale long term. Therefore Space changes this. In orbit, you can get things like near-constant solar power, you don’t have cooling problems, there’s minimal land/environmental impact, and you can build systems that can run continuously with minimal maintenance. This is why space-based AI is actually very practical and there’s only one company that can do it, which is SpaceX! The scale that SpaceX is aiming for is pretty wild. Elon is talking about 1/ 1 million satellites acting as orbital data centers, and 2/ Launching ~1 million tons of satellites per year Which means 3/ At 100 kW per ton, that’s 100 gigawatts of AI compute every year 4/ And that can scale to 1 terawatt per year. FYI, adding 100 GW of new compute capacity annually in space would be like building out roughly 20-25% of the USA’s total average electricity demand every single year. And scaling to 1 TW/year would exceed the nation’s entire power usage, ALL without burdening Earth’s grids! Bro… this is next level… I repeat, as of today, SpaceX is the ONLY company positioned to do this, especially with Starship - the largest flying vehicle ever. In the future, Elon’s saying the team is going to have Starship launch 200 tons at a time, on an HOURLY basis… WTF?! That’s is absolutely mind boggling. In my opinion, whichever company builds the lowest cost AI compute is going to be the first company that defines the next era of AI, which will all be in space… and my $ is that SpaceX is going to be the first one to do it. Then, when you zoom out even further, this will unlock things most people aren’t even thinking about yet today bc it’s too sci-fi. Like, • Powering lunar bases • In-space propellant transfer • Manufacturing in orbit and on the Moon • Deep-space AI infrastructure using massive solar collectors • Self-growing civilizations on the Moon, Mars, and beyond By tapping into space’s unlimited solar energy, this is how we get to a Kardashev-level civilization! So for SpaceX, the faster Starship progresses, there will be massive new revenue streams and will lead in building out space-based AI infrastructures. For xAI, AI scales without ruining Earth, deeply integrated with everything SpaceX is building, further understanding the universe. For us humans, AI will grow without destroying the planet, and there’s a real path to becoming multi-planetary. I believe SpaceX acquiring xAI is officially the blueprint for where AI, energy, and humanity are headed. Congratulations to everyone, this is such an exciting time to be alive!
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SpaceX has officially acquired xAI and this is a HUGE deal, probably bigger than most people realize. SpaceX + xAI together are about to build a single, vertically integrated engine that connects AI, rockets, space based internet, and real time information all into one unified system. At the core of this announcement is the fact that AI can’t scale forever on Earth. Think about it. Data centers are already running into hard limits with power, cooling, land, and environmental cost. On top of this, global AI electricity demand is exploding, and doing all of this on the ground just doesn’t scale long term. Therefore Space changes this. In orbit, you can get things like near-constant solar power, you don’t have cooling problems, there’s minimal land/environmental impact, and you can build systems that can run continuously with minimal maintenance. This is why space-based AI is actually very practical and there’s only one company that can do it, which is SpaceX! The scale that SpaceX is aiming for is pretty wild. Elon is talking about 1/ 1 million satellites acting as orbital data centers, and 2/ Launching ~1 million tons of satellites per year Which means 3/ At 100 kW per ton, that’s 100 gigawatts of AI compute every year 4/ And that can scale to 1 terawatt per year. FYI, adding 100 GW of new compute capacity annually in space would be like building out roughly 20-25% of the USA’s total average electricity demand every single year. And scaling to 1 TW/year would exceed the nation’s entire power usage, ALL without burdening Earth’s grids! Bro… this is next level… I repeat, as of today, SpaceX is the ONLY company positioned to do this, especially with Starship - the largest flying vehicle ever. In the future, Elon’s saying the team is going to have Starship launch 200 tons at a time, on an HOURLY basis… WTF?! That’s is absolutely mind boggling. In my opinion, whichever company builds the lowest cost AI compute is going to be the first company that defines the next era of AI, which will all be in space… and my $ is that SpaceX is going to be the first one to do it. Then, when you zoom out even further, this will unlock things most people aren’t even thinking about yet today bc it’s too sci-fi. Like, • Powering lunar bases • In-space propellant transfer • Manufacturing in orbit and on the Moon • Deep-space AI infrastructure using massive solar collectors • Self-growing civilizations on the Moon, Mars, and beyond By tapping into space’s unlimited solar energy, this is how we get to a Kardashev-level civilization! So for SpaceX, the faster Starship progresses, there will be massive new revenue streams and will lead in building out space-based AI infrastructures. For xAI, AI scales without ruining Earth, deeply integrated with everything SpaceX is building, further understanding the universe. For us humans, AI will grow without destroying the planet, and there’s a real path to becoming multi-planetary. I believe SpaceX acquiring xAI is officially the blueprint for where AI, energy, and humanity are headed. Congratulations to everyone, this is such an exciting time to be alive!

Teslaconomics

148,575 görüntüleme • 7 ay önce

JUST IN: New footage of Elon Musk in SpaceX Starbase, Louisiana introducing video. Elon Musk "If you want to go out there and make life multiplanetary, and not just be a tourist—send a few people and come back—and if you want to go there and actually build a self-growing civilization, you need serious tonnage. We are going to bring, I think, probably north of 10,000 really exciting jobs to Louisiana. They are the kind of jobs that are so exciting, you cannot wait to go to work in the morning. It is super inspiring, and we believe in having a really fun work environment. It is hard to beat rockets, frankly. I think it has been incredibly exciting for the people of Louisiana. We will make it so the public can come and see, like they do at Cape Canaveral. People will go see Disney World, but then they will go over to Cape Canaveral to watch the rocket launch."
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JUST IN: New footage of Elon Musk in SpaceX Starbase, Louisiana introducing video. Elon Musk "If you want to go out there and make life multiplanetary, and not just be a tourist—send a few people and come back—and if you want to go there and actually build a self-growing civilization, you need serious tonnage. We are going to bring, I think, probably north of 10,000 really exciting jobs to Louisiana. They are the kind of jobs that are so exciting, you cannot wait to go to work in the morning. It is super inspiring, and we believe in having a really fun work environment. It is hard to beat rockets, frankly. I think it has been incredibly exciting for the people of Louisiana. We will make it so the public can come and see, like they do at Cape Canaveral. People will go see Disney World, but then they will go over to Cape Canaveral to watch the rocket launch."

Doge Tipping

29,764 görüntüleme • 7 gün önce