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pilgrim0today at 12:02 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Money raised from a public offering would most likely help SpaceX finance its long-term goals of launching artificial intelligence data centers into orbit, creating a colony on the moon and getting humans to Mars. These are expensive and unproven endeavors that may take years and billions of dollars to achieve.

Oh my god. When a journalist writes like any of this is remotely plausible within “years” and “billions” of dollars it really downplays the near impossibility of these events happening.


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hattmalltoday at 2:34 AM

What possible reasonable benefit would there be to datacenters in space? Why would that even be a concept at all?

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erulabstoday at 2:58 AM

Technically if it takes 500 years and $17T it is still possible within "years" and "billions"