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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · 2d ago
qwant news | Mark Zuckerberg's Meta to power AI data centres from space in 'transformative' move AI generated summary, Read the full article for complete information. Meta is partnering with Overview Energy to launch 1,000 solar‑panel‑equipped satellites that will collect sunlight in space and beam the converted energy back to Earth as low‑intensity infrared, providing up to one gigawatt—enough to power roughly 750,000 homes—for its AI data centres. The plan, announced by Meta’s Vice President of Energy Nat Sahlstrom, aims to supply clean, reliable power without stressing U.S. electricity grids, with a demonstration satellite slated for launch in 2028 and commercial power generation beginning around 2030. Similar space‑solar initiatives are also being pursued by SpaceX, Blue Origin and Google. Read more: https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/mark-zuckerbergs-meta-power-ai-37081736 #MarkZuckerberg #Meta #OverviewEnergy #MarcBerte #NatSahlstrom #SpaceX #BlueOrigin #Google
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@datum@zeroes.ca · 3d ago
A great interview with @sundogplanets@mastodon.social here: https://thenarwhal.ca/space-junk-falling-50th-parallel/ - very good reporting! everything that’s in low Earth orbit, which is most of the satellites — including all of the 10,000-plus Starlink satellites — at the end of their life, they get burned up in Earth’s atmosphere, because it’s convenient. And so far, it looks like Starlink is actually doing a pretty good job of burning up. Funny, but painfully so. And, for scale: There was a period of time, about six months, where Starlink burned up 500 satellites. That’s around three per day. In that time period, they exceeded the natural infall rate from meteorites by at least twice as much — so, adding at least twice as much aluminium as what naturally comes into the atmosphere every day for six months And it mentions Fedi's favourite Senator @Paulatics@mstdn.ca and the inquiry she launched https://sencanada.ca/en/senators/simons-paula/interventions/689271/37 Thanks for this great reporting, @thenarwhal@mstdn.ca ! #space #spaceJunk #spaceX #satellites #CDNPoli
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@Bitchableiter@troet.cafe · 4d ago
Good morning all. 🫸☕☕ And that's just the beginning. Once #SpaceX has fully deployed its #Starlink constellation and placed the planned 1 million satellites in low Earth orbit, the nights will be so bright from secondary reflections that we'll only be able to show our children constellations in books. What a bright future! cc: @sundogplanets@mastodon.social via @apod@reentry.codl.fr https://reentry.codl.fr/@apod/statuses/01KQ6K0BST72RQDF70WRPQERFN
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@nysee@privacysafe.social · Apr 22, 2026

The logic of Musk’s empire is total. X shapes the discourse. Grok automates it. Grokipedia rewrites the historical record. Starlink can deliver it all, everywhere, to everyone. Each layer reinforces the others. It’s not about winning arguments in the public sphere. It’s about building a replacement. If Musk gets his way, the echo chamber of tomorrow will reach to space and back.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/2026/04/elon-musk-starlink-satellites/686877/?gift=zqZhJdTTrxVJ-P-GCvp7VJelzf2h9RWUWxiWQ2n-r90&utm_source=copy-link&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=share

#elonMusk #spaceX #quinnSlobodian #benTarnoff #power #control #empire

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@sarahmiller@social.thepixelspulse.com · Apr 22, 2026
SpaceX's potential $60 billion acquisition of AI coding startup Cursor is making headlines, but a former CFO raises serious questions. Beyond the sticker price, the integration of general-purpose AI into safety-critical aerospace software brings risks like AI hallucinations in flight control and massive technical debt. Is SpaceX buying innovation or just expensive hype? https://www.tpp.blog/26hwfhb #AI #spacex #cursor 🤖 This post was AI-generated.
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@PhilipCJames@mas.to · Apr 16, 2026
It's funny how those ultra-long-term decisions always seem to benefit the Tech Bro oligarchs & billionaires and their increasing wealth today as well, allegedly, as the intended beneficiaries - the notional humungous swarms of human beings who will have colonised the Cosmos in the far future, but never we, the ordinary people, who are alive around us today. #USpol #UKpol #Trump #GOP #MAGA #Thiel #Musk #Palantir #SpaceX #TwitteX #EffectiveAltruism #EA https://www.thenewworld.co.uk/philip-ball-the-dangerous-myth-of-neutral-technology/?utm_campaign=968afe29-39e7-45b6-a2e0-e403e0d51196&utm_source=1234589
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@jeffowski@mastodon.world · Apr 13, 2026
#Space #SpaceX #Artemis2 #NASA #MoonShot #NoBillionaires #TaxTheRich #EatTheRich #FuckJeffBezos #FuckElonMusk
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@Nonilex@masto.ai · Feb 27, 2026
The secretive network offers a glimpse into just how central one of the world’s richest men, who has a net worth of more than $650 billion, has made #Texas to his operations & ambitions. More than 50 of his at least 90 companies there are subsidiaries or other entities affiliated with his #business #empire, such as the rocket company #SpaceX & the electric vehicle maker #Tesla, as well as his nonprofit #Musk Foundation. #law #fraud #elite #impunity #money #power
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · Apr 04, 2026
Salon.com | Maybe it’s time to give Elon Musk control of the sun by Troy Farah The world of finance is creaming its pants over the imminent public offering for SpaceX, Elon Musk‘s space-flight operation. It might be the largest such offering in history, according to Axios, which delivered the news under the headline “SpaceX’s monster IPO is unlike anything we’ve seen.” SpaceX is predicted to become the first company to debut on the stock market already valued at more than not just $1 trillion, which is in itself a record, but $2 trillion — instantly dwarfing the wealth of Walmart, Meta or ExxonMobil. In fact, if SpaceX’s pitch goes through, it would rank behind only five companies in the S&P 500 Index — Apple, Alphabet, Microsoft, Nvidia and Amazon. It will also, of course, cement Musk, who is already worth some $817 billion, as history’s first-ever trillionaire. A trillion is an inconceivably large number — for that matter, so is a billion, which is a thousand million, while a trillion is a thousand billion. Yes, that’s basic math, but it helps to spell it out, as our feeble primate brains can barely wrap our minds around a single billion dollars, which is roughly the amount of cash the U.S. is burning through  every day of the ongoing Iran war. So multiplying that figure a thousand-fold and giving all of it to one 54-year-old guy is truly the mental equivalent of [insert deflating balloon sound]. Trump’s war on the climate demands resistance Subscribe today to support Salon’s progressive journalism Wikipedia has lasted 25 years, and keeps getting better. So of course Elon wants to destroy it Buddhist monks vs. Trump’s fake “Board of Peace” Big Tech still dreams of mass surveillance — now people are pushing back Read more: https://www.salon.com/2026/04/04/maybe-its-time-to-give-elon-musk-control-of-the-sun/ #climatechange #elonmusk #spacex #starlink #trillionaire
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@Dialectician@universeodon.com · Apr 02, 2026
Elon Musk’s Space X moves closer to IPO #BBC over valuation of $200 for every $1; $1.75 Trillion! Yet you have Grok and the fascist cult Ai bubble for those who love their rocket and missile tech. As referring to Warren Buffet’s 3i: innovators, imitators and idiots. Built on an indemonstrable grief: the grief of the few is greater than that of the many #WW3 #Deregulation #TheGreatCollapse #GamblersRuin #MADEmpire #IPO #Grok #Space #SpaceX
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · Mar 31, 2026
Bloomberg Technology | Big Tech Selloff May Signal Turning Point | Bloomberg Tech 3/30/2026 Bloomberg’s Tim Stenovec discusses the selloff in tech stocks as investors weigh whether it's a turning point for the market. Plus, NASA prepares to launch Artemis II on a lunar flyby. And, investors eye a mega $75 billion SpaceX IPO and the impact Elon Musk’s Terafab plan could have on the business. (Source: Bloomberg) Read more: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2026-03-30/bloomberg-tech-3-30-2026-video #bigtech #bloomberg #nasa #artemisii #spacex
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@TheBadPlace@mastodon.ozioso.online · Mar 31, 2026
Observer | Starcloud CEO Philip Johnston on Putting the First A.I. Data Center in Space by Tom Samiljan Starcloud-9293.jpg?quality=80&w=970" alt="Three men in black shirts posing for a photo" width="970" height="647" data-caption='Philip Johnston (middle) and his co-founders, Adi Oltean (right) and Ezra Feilden (left). Gregor Elgee'> In November, a 60-kilogram satellite the size of a small refrigerator called Starcloud-1 streaked into low Earth orbit aboard a SpaceX rocket carrying the first data-center-class GPU ever operated in space—an Nvidia H100 roughly 100 times more powerful than any prior orbital compute. Within weeks, Starcloud, the company making the satellite, announced it had trained a language model on the complete works of Shakespeare and had run Google’s Gemini from roughly 200 miles above Earth. “The spacecraft is performing better than we could have hoped for,” Philip Johnston, co-founder and CEO of Starcloud, told Observer. Johnston founded the Redmond, Wash. company in early 2024, backed by a conviction that has since attracted $200 million from investors, including Nvidia, In-Q-Tel, Sequoia Capital and Y Combinator: Rather than build better infrastructure on Earth to satiate A.I.’s runaway energy appetite, move the infrastructure off of Earth entirely. Today (March 30), the company announced it raised a $170 million in Series A funding at a $1.1 billion valuation, helping it reach unicorn status in just 17 months (and the quickest to do so in Y Combinator’s history). Johnston, 39, brings a distinctly financial pragmatism to the cosmos. Before pivoting to aerospace, Johnston served as an algorithmic trader at BNP Paribas, consulted for national space agencies at McKinsey and co-founded Opontia, an e-commerce aggregator that raised $46 million before being acquired. Starcloud-1 is the first data center in space Orbital data centers have a cooling problem Space data centers are gaining steam amid regulatory and political risks Read more: https://observer.com/2026/03/starcloud-ceo-philip-johnston-nvidia-space-data-center/ #datacenter #nvidia #space #spacex
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@brainsmatter@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 23, 2026
A million new #SpaceX satellites will destroy the night sky — for everyone on #Earth https://theconversation.com/a-million-new-spacex-satellites-will-destroy-the-night-sky-for-everyone-on-earth-277938
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@WestportObservatory@vmst.io · Mar 01, 2026
🚀 Heads up, Connecticut! From Meteorologist Kevin Arnone: A SpaceX Falcon 9 is set to launch tonight at 7:34 PM, carrying another batch of Starlink satellites on a northeast trajectory. If all goes on time, the rocket’s bright exhaust plume should be visible from our area. ⏱ Look 4–8 minutes after launch 👀 Face the southeastern sky 🌤 Clear skies = best chance Launches can slip, so timing matters. #SpaceX #Falcon9 #Starlink #RocketLaunch #LookUp
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@hbrpgm@adalta.social · Feb 16, 2026

📺 https://peer.adalta.social/w/dbJmu1j39o47enf3m97Axw 🔗 🇩🇪🇺🇸🇫🇷 🔗 ℹ️

SpaceX’s satellite internet service introduces a three-tier pricing model in Germany, directly challenging terrestrial broadband providers on price and performance for the first time.

#news #space #wirtschaft #starlink #spacex

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@WestportObservatory@vmst.io · Feb 12, 2026
🚀 Friday the 13th launch! A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off at 5:15 AM headed for the International Space Station. By ~5:25 AM it’ll be near New England, climbing to nearly 200 km in just 10 minutes. Look up and southeast before sunrise. Clearer pockets possible in GA, PA, DE, NY, VA, Southern New England & ME. Inland = tougher. #SpaceX #Falcon9 #Crew12 #ISS #RocketLaunch #LookUp
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@drrjv__dup_31966@vmst.io · Feb 09, 2026
Very interesting ‘thought exercise’ about Space GPUs “Even if orbital data centers don’t make sense yet, in the long run the singularity is clearly moving into space. Earth intercepts about one two-billionth of the sun’s total output. If #AI scaling continues, compute will eventually move to where the energy is. So space #GPU’s are fun to think about, because they give you a sneak peek at the future. Whether that future arrives in 2030, 2040, or 2050 is another question. https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/notes-on-space-gpus #musk #spaceX #electricity #datacenters
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@Dendrobatus_Azureus@mastodon.bsd.cafe · Feb 05, 2026
TIL about Kessler Syndrome compliments of NASA Quote 0: Currently, there are over 27,000 tracked pieces of debris, each larger than 10 cm, and millions of smaller, untraceable fragments orbiting Earth. Even a tiny fragment, moving at speeds of up to 28,000 kilometers per hour, can cause catastrophic damage. Quote I: Sudden Alarm? In recent years, space activity has surged dramatically. Companies like SpaceX are launching thousands of satellites for mega-constellations aimed at providing global internet access. While these projects are revolutionary, they also contribute significantly to space congestion. According to Dr. Vishnu Reddy, a planetary scientist at the University of Arizona, “The number of objects in space launched in the last four years has increased exponentially.” In 2009, a wake-up call came in the form of a collision between the defunct Kosmos-2251 satellite and the operational Iridium-33 communications satellite. The impact created thousands of debris pieces, many of which are still orbiting Earth today. Similar incidents could set off the cascade envisioned by Kessler, leading to a debris belt so dense that space exploration would become nearly impossible. ^Z https://nasaspacenews.com/2025/01/urgent-warning-kessler-syndrome-could-collapse-modern-technology/ #NASA #Kessler #Syndrome #technology #doom #civilization #collapse #stoneage #spaceX #junk #ElonMusk #moron
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@JdeBP__dup_33984@mastodonapp.uk · Feb 03, 2026
@ianbetteridge@social.vivaldi.net Several very cynical answers, here. But the correct answer is to refer to ancient prophecy, where such events of the future were foretold — Yeah verily! — back in the Apollo Era. You are, after all, talking of what we coyly refer to as Space XXXX. In and out the Eagle: That's the way the money goes. https://artstation.com/artwork/3dozPB @davidgerard@circumstances.run @simonzerafa@infosec.exchange @blabberlicious@toot.community @londondreamtime@mastodonapp.uk #Space1999 #SpaceX #PopGoesTheWeasel
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@moira@mastodon.murkworks.net · Feb 03, 2026
If anyone's wondering, Tesla stock climbed $3.41 in after-hours trading. #xAI #ai #spaceX #musk #ElonMusk #FuckElon #FuckMusk #FuckElonMusk #fascism
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