>This isn’t sci-fi. Elon has explicitly said power + compute are the limiting factors for AI — and he controls both. You're too early, and you bought the wrong company. There won't be orbital data centers by 2027, or probably even 2037. Tesla won't be building orbital data centers, anyway. If any of Musk's companies got into this business, it would be SpaceX and xAI. You can't invest in everything Elon touches by investing in Tesla. Tesla's involvement would be limited to supplying energy storage (which will approach commodity status over time), and humanoid robots (but not really). Optimus is a remote-controlled puppet designed to distract regards from Tesla's shrinking margins. Companies like Boston Dynamics are at least a decade ahead. Space-based data centers are a distant dream. Yes, solar panels are more efficient in space, but it costs SpaceX $2,000 per kilogram to put anything in orbit (more if it's a banana), and construction costs in orbit are exorbitant. Cutting edge AI chips are very sensitive to radiation and the temperature extremes in space could greatly reduce their lifespan. Maintaining orbit requires fuel that would more than offset any savings on solar power. Humanoid robots wouldn't be the best option for staffing an orbital data center anyway. Why spend $150,000 lugging a heavy robot with legs up to a weightless environment? Why not just have a robotic arm that can swap out components and keep panels clean, etc.?

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People hear “space datacenter” and imagine a sci-fi Dyson sphere, not a first demo. Startups with no launch capability are already targeting 2027 for compute-in-orbit tests, but SpaceX somehow needs 2040? Sure. Starship is the cost inflection, once lift is cheap, weird ideas become line items. The market doesn’t wait for full-scale anything, it re-rates on prototypes + narrative. Nobody believed reusable rockets, Starlink, or rapid AI clusters either until they existed. By the time CNBC explains it, the trade’s already dead.

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I thought IROBOT was a mediocre sci-fi thriller starring Will Smith

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That ain’t sci fi 😡

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#sci fi movie recs please

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It's not, it's another loss making Elon ego massaging business. It will never IPO, they will just keep hinting at it and raising privately at absurd valuations with tiny offerings so that Elon can continue to borrow billions against his equity from JPM. It's the perfect scam business. When people ask to see and figures or why they haven't floated yet he can just say "secret DoD stuff",  The government contracts give him cast iron guarantees to borrow against and he can blather on about mars or some sci fi bullshit and pretend he's doing it for real. 

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