| Space-x is it's biggest customer. Star Link is the main thing which increased the payload to space significantly. Star Link only has 10 million customers and every few minutes a satellite handover is happening which makes it hard to use for video call (was my experience at a friend's house) While this business is paying of right now others will get into it too and destroying SpaceX margin (china etc) Now what else on payload is there? Ah yes Datacenter. It would take 300-400 Sparship launches alone to get a current 200-300Mwh DC into space alone. Starship doesn't deliver yet what it needs to be able to do. Neither on payload side nor on cost reduction due to reuse. A DC will be cheaper on earth for a long time as long as earth is as empty as it is especially for areas which are just dessert. It would be a lot better long term investment to just build its own Datacenter city in the dessert as ai doesn't need that low of latency and use everything realtime in the other Datacenter we already have. SpaceX Elon musk fantasy is 50-100 years to early. You gonna wait so long? |