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Btw, for those horrified about the prospect of a million AI data center satellites orbiting the earth, Elon is correct when he says space is huge. Earth’s circumference is about 25,000 miles. So if you spaced satellites every 1/2 mile from each other, you could put 50,000 satellites in orbit in one ring at say 500 km. Then if you made another ring at 550 km (that’s 50 km spacing between rings), that’s another 50,000 satellites. Keep going and by the time you’ve hit the orbital ring at 1,500 km, you’ve got your 1 million satellites. In 20 layered orbital rings on top of each other. And there are thousands of these one million stacked orbits you could do with inclination changes, and going further out from the earth, etc.

Elon is not messing around. SpaceX has just filed an application with the FCC seeking authority to launch and operate a massive new satellite constellation dedicated to orbital data centers. ITS HAPPENING. Tesla Terafab is next.