SpaceX Files for Million-Satellite Network to Power AI Data Centers in Orbit

SpaceX filed an FCC application to launch approximately one million satellites before disclosing plans for orbital data centers, which Musk frames as essential to meet AI's electricity demands. The concept leverages solar power unconstrained by weather and vacuum-based radiative cooling. No one has yet demonstrated data-center-scale compute clusters in orbit; questions around radiation hardening, launch cadence, and latency remain unresolved.