NASA Administrator and former Shift4 Payments Inc.
(NYSE:FOUR) CEO Jared Isaacman has backed Elon Musk and Space Exploration Technologies Corp.'s (NASDAQ:SPCX) goal of establishing space-based compute capacity via orbital data centers.
AI Race Healthy for NASA During an appearance on the Moonshot podcast on Monday, Isaacman said that the Artificial Intelligence race was "extremely healthy" for NASA.
He then said that if "Elon and SpaceX are betting on this [orbital data centers], there is no reason to believe this will not come into existence." Read Also: Musk Touted Data Centers in Space to SpaceX IPO Investors.
Peter Zeihan Calls the Idea 'So Many Levels of Dumb' Isaacman then said that one should "never bet against an extremely well-capitalized Elon." He also shed some light upon SpaceX's IPO, saying that NASA's partners, like SpaceX, being "extremely well-capitalized" was a good thing and that the engineers at SpaceX, with Musk at the helm, left "no doubt" that orbital data centers will happen.
