Starship catch proves reusability, paving way for orbital data centers
Dr_Singularity · x · 2026-11-15
After Starship's first-ever ship catch by the launch tower, the author argues rocket reusability at Starship scale is basically solved, enabling cheap deployment of compute to space.
Key logic: orbital data centers could tap 24/7 solar energy (energy being the major cost of compute), with no need for Earth siting, permits, or legal paperwork. If markets grasp this, SpaceX and AI-related stocks—chips, memory—should boom, as an enormous amount of hardware is headed to orbit.
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