New FCC filing by SpaceX for constellation of million data center satellites for AI apps.

# of sats: up to 1 million!
Orbit: 500 km and 2,000 km altitude and 30°inclinations. Multiple orbital shells 50 km apart.
Cooling: radiative
Schedule: unspecified
Sat size, weight, power, cost, ..: unspecified
Launches: millions of tons of mass per year

There goes the neighborhood.
Or is this just marketing fluff and orbital hoarding?

@sundogplanets
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To keep the clueless masses intoxicated, SpaceX threw in these flowery words in the FCC filing -

"Launching a constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization—one that can harness the Sun’s full power—while supporting AI-driven applications for billions of people today and ensuring humanity’s multi-planetary future amongst the stars."

Earth must be destroyed to save it?

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We are not nearly enough to have the technology to become a Kardashev I-level civilization and these fucking morons are talking about becoming a II-level one.

Are they so clueless or do they think we are?

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