Sam Altman’s space data center trash talk is what most experts already believe
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Sam Altman and Elon Musk traded barbed social media posts over the weekend, drawing new attention to the gap between vision and reality for the space-compute business.
Key facts
SpaceX’s plans to launch a fleet of orbital data centers to perform AI inference tasks are the main driver behind the company’s 2-trillion-dollar valuation
Sam Altman and Elon Musk traded barbed social media posts over the weekend, drawing new attention to the gap between vision and reality for the space-compute business
Musk’s answer to this is easy to predict: Starship, SpaceX’s huge new rocket, is expected to make its 13th test flight as soon as July 16
Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, “homeboy you’re the one sellling [sic] public market investors on short-term space datacenters
Summary
Responding to Musk accusing him of being a scammer, Altman said, “homeboy you’re the one sellling public market investors on short-term space datacenters.” Setting aside “homeboy,” Altman is saying what a lot of experts have concluded but public market investors seem to be ignoring: Space data centers are not going to be a serious business anytime soon. SpaceX’s plans to launch a fleet of orbital data centers to perform AI inference tasks are the main driver behind the company’s 2-trillion-dollar valuation.