EP 609 : SpaceX & Nvidia Team Up for Orbital AI Data Centers – Elon Musk vs Sam Altman
What if the next AI super‑computer isn’t on Earth at all? In this episode we break down SpaceX’s bold partnership with Nvidia to launch orbital data centers, Elon Musk’s launch timeline, and why Sam Altman called the idea ‘ridiculous’ just months ago.We dive into the technical specs of Nvidia’s Vera Rubin NVL72 rack – 72 chips delivering up to 25× the power of an H100, re‑engineered for radiation, heat and weight constraints. Musk says the space‑optimized system will run everything from Grok to the Starlink fleet, and analysts predict orbital compute could become cheaper than ground‑based…
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