Knew there’d be one guy in here who actually understands the real constraints instead of defaulting to “lol Elon fanboy.” You’re right that hyperscale Earth-style datacenters in orbit are decades away — that’s not what I’m arguing. The bullish case is incremental orbital compute: tens–hundreds of kW for inference, preprocessing, comms, not Meta-scale training. Radiative cooling is solved physics; the bottleneck is radiator mass + economics, which only starts to make sense as launch costs collapse. That’s why 2027 is about demos and narrative, not endgame, markets move on the former long before the latter.

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