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.

June 8 : SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said on Monday that building orbital AI data centers is not a difficult engineering challenge as the company prepares for its blockbuster IPO this…

The billionaire said that much of the required technology already exists in its current Starlink satellite network. "Part of what we want to convey here is that there is not…