SpaceX wants to launch data centers into space, and Elon Musk is pitching it as a near-trivial engineering problem ahead of the company's IPO. A first AI satellite would match the output of a single Nvidia GB300 rack. But Google's own research suggests real AI training would require about 10,000 tightly coupled satellites.
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Correction instructionsSpaceX wants to launch data centers into space, and Elon Musk is pitching it as a near-trivial engineering problem ahead of the company's IPO. A first AI satellite would match the output of a single Nvidia GB300 rack. But Google's own research suggests real AI training would require about 10,000 tightly coupled satellites.
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