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Efosa Udinmwen

Say hello to Elon Musk's mega new SpaceX facility — an 11-million-square-foot Gigasat factory will look to build hardware for orbiting data centers, and targets 1 GW/year of space AI compute by late 2027

SpaceX Gigasat Factory.
  • SpaceX plans a massive factory dedicated to producing AI satellites.
  • New AI1 spacecraft could bring computing power directly into orbit.
  • Musk wants orbital computing capacity measured in gigawatts annually.

SpaceX has unveiled plans for an enormous manufacturing complex in Bastrop, Texas, that could become central to its ambitions for space-based AI infrastructure.

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