A lot of experts still think orbital data centers are impossible....or something that’s not going to happen in the near future Elon just confirmed he is highly confident SpaceX will be launching Nvidia VR NLV72 AI computers in space next year SpaceX already designed a space-optimized version of this system with Nvidia. Elon said it’s significantly simpler, lower cost, denser and lighter than a traditional rack Vera Rubin NVL72: • 72 Rubin GPUs • 36 Vera CPUs • 20.7 TB of HBM4 • 3,600 PFLOPS of NVFP4 compute Then there’s Starmind AI1: • 75-meter wingspan....wider than a Boeing 747 • Up to 250 kW peak / 175 kW average compute • Sun-synchronous orbit for continuous solar power • Radiative cooling directly into space • High-bandwidth laser links connecting into Starlink SpaceX is targeting the first Vera Rubin systems in orbit next year....with significant scale already targeted for 2028 Starlink already operates the largest satellite constellation in history, serving internet around the world SpaceX has already solved the major engineering problems needed to make orbital AI compute work....now the challenge left is deploying it at massive scale Yeah....Starlink was also dismissed by so-called experts as something that would never work at this scale Fast forward to today, SpaceX basically owns the infrastructure layer of space....and has the monstrous infrastructure to dominate what comes next This is what Elon does Take something everyone calls impossible, turn it into an engineering problem....solve it and deploy it at massive scale