SpaceX – AI Satellite

https://www.spacex.com/spacexai/starmind

by johntb86 • 12 days ago

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orliesaurus• 12 days ago

Do you think the website was built with Grok?

ben_w• 9 days ago

I think the whole business plan was made by Grok.

It talks about the Terafab plan of 1 TW/year, compares against US electricity supply of 0.5 TW. There isn't currently 1 TW/year of new PV being made *worldwide*, and won't be for another couple of years even if the current exponential growth continues.

It links to dedicated page about Terafab, which talks of a billion Optimus robots making the stuff, which I think would result in a race between every nuclear power (including the USA) over who can vaporise the whole thing first; but also it's trivially obvious from looking at employment statistics that a billion humans doing nothing else but making PV, compute, and satellites would be able to produce 30-40 times as much satellite so this is clearly picking a big number to sound good and not bothering with even a back-of-the-envelope calculation before saying "yes boss".

Also, as presented, the factory would have a surface temperature of 387°C if each of those robots was just 100 W draw like a human is. That bucolic farmland in Bastrop will be on fire.

drop_star• 12 days ago

Thermal management limits of a vacuum, radiation, rapid pace of chip obsolescence. I can't see how this is practical.

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