[cakealert]

This is fairly naive, Elon isn't the only investor in SpaceX.

My guess is "that they did the math" and had an engineering study which convinced them that getting AI datacenters into space will make sense.

It's also not hard to imagine why, the process alone once perfected could be reused for asteroid mining for example, then mirogravity manufacturing, either of which alone would be enormous capital intensive projects. Even if AI dataenters in space are break-even it would be a massive win for SpaceX and leave their competition far behind.

[javascriptfan69]

Are you a bot or are you just stupid?

[fooker]

There are several other companies that have announced efforts to try data centers in space.

[javascriptfan69]

I know this is hackernews and we like to get hyped up for new technologies, but, like, this just straight up isn't happening.

There is no benefit to putting data centers in space versus the giant cost that you would incur by doing so.

Can people please try and use their fucking brains for a second?

[fooker]

> Can people please try and use their fucking brains for a second?

Have you considered that people smarter than you think it is plausible?

[youarentrightjr]

> Have you considered that people smarter than you think it is plausible?

I know many people smarter than me, plenty of them who have spent careers building data centers, and not one of them think this is plausible.

You should consider whether people smarter than the average investor are pulling a fast one.

[fooker]

Maybe we are talking about different things here?

I don't doubt spacex can fail at this.

I also don't doubt we are fairly close to making this plausible.

> plenty of them who have spent careers building data centers

Famously, plenty of people who have spent careers building rockets would swear that reusable rockets would absolutely never work.

[javascriptfan69]

Have you considered that people smarter than you are scamming you?

[fooker]

Yep, definitely being scammed by not dismissing things outside my area of expertise out of hand.

I wish I had your confidence about everything!

[mathisfun123]

I often wonder that same thing about many hn commenters!