Elon Musk's Orbital Data Centers Are Staggeringly Huge

Elon Musk's Orbital Data Centers Are Staggeringly Huge

Elon Musk’s promises tend to follow a formula. They involve a number ending in “-illion,” pertaining to something which will be built or deployed, and which will be accomplished within a number of years that is decidedly not an “-illion” — and that’s before we get into the continual revision as timelines slip and customers patience wears thin. And now, right on cue: an ambitious new plan for orbital data centers, which Musk envisions as a massiv…

Elon Musk’s Orbital Data Centers: A Trillion-Dollar Moonshot or the Most Expensive Real Estate in the Universe?

Elon Musk wants to put data centers in space. Not figuratively, not as some distant aspiration penciled into a ten-year roadmap, but as an active business plan already drawing investment interest and engineering attention. The idea, floated publicly by Musk and now gaining traction inside his sprawling network of companies, would see massive computing infrastructure launched into orbit — powered by the sun, cooled by the vacuum of space, and con…