Post #3005966
2026-03-26 17:48 UTC
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social
I suspect exactly zero of these silly "AI data centre" satellites will ever be launched.
Data centres are famously hungry for power and cooling. Satellites are famously difficult to run power supplies out to, and exist in a near total vacuum so there is a shortage of stuff to radiate heat out to. The whole scheme makes no sense at all unless seen as solely a scam to get gullible investors to put money into SpaceX.
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@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org 2026-03-26 17:50
@Paulatics@mstdn.ca @sundogplanets@mastodon.social (see also: Hyperloop - a project whose goal was never to actually build any rapid mass transit, but rather to look like a much better thing that was just over the horizon, which would dissuade governments from investing in currently existing mass transit technologies like rail. And it worked.)
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@Paulatics@mstdn.ca 2026-03-26 18:01
@dragonfrog@mastodon.sdf.org @sundogplanets@mastodon.social The FCC filing reads like a fever dream. It is one of the oddest legal documents I have ever seen.