[brightball]

My guess is that the use here is similar to the reason AWS started as Amazon selling their excess capacity.

Between Tesla, SpaceX, X, Boring Co and Neuralink they probably want the capability internally for a lot of different applications.

If the whole data centers in space thing works out AND people keep protesting/blocking data center build outs on land SpaceX will eventually dominate the entire AI industry just based on escaping scarcity.

[willsmith72]

That Amazon story is a misnomer. They just saw an opportunity with the tech and hardware they had to make a new offering for customers. It's not like they could just offer their spare capacity, then eg at peak US time snatch it back for the retail site

[brightball]

For many years, I watched my apps performance on AWS suffer in December around all the holiday sales. They might not snatch it back but they probably saturated it during high demand periods.