Ehh, I think they are just "kissing the ring". This was part of the agreement for the terrestrial datacenter access, pretend like the space orbital compute is more than the boondoggle that it clearly is.

I want to be clear, I do think that one day something like that will exist, I just don't think it's anywhere close to being a reality, much like FSD.

Also it costs them, almost [0], nothing to say it and then later come up with some reason why they are no longer interested.

[0] Maybe a little bit of respect