The reported merger of xAI and SpaceX points to a harder question than model quality: whether orbital compute, launch access, and satellite networking can be welded into a secure AI stack at all.
Orbital computing is still a speculative idea, but the pressure behind it is very real: AI power demand, cooling limits, and a search for better resilience.
Elon Musk’s latest proposal to launch AI-powered data centers into orbit could redefine the digital landscape-and challenge the boundaries of space itself.