I'm Engine Rich, and I'm exhausted.
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Within the past year, we've gone from
"there might be data centers in space"
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"there will be data centers in space"
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"basically everything we send to space will be a data center".
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And I need all these hot single women to stop messaging me too. Please, I beg of you. We must end this epidemic of free money and unlimited hot chicks in my DMs.
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This is a real photo from 2019
Starship test flight rocket just finished assembly at the @SpaceX Texas launch site. This is an actual picture, not a rendering.
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It's a hard lesson in hardware.
$ORCL and $BE are both down after Oracle reportedly sent a force majeure notice on its New Mexico data center as power and permitting delays pushed Project Jupiter behind schedule.
The $165B campus depends on 2.5GW of Bloom fuel cells making this another example of power and permitting becoming constraint on AI infrastructure.
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🤣 Holy shit what!? Is New Glenn made out of solid gold and melted down GPUs? How do you even spend that much money for so little in return?
Exclusive: Jeff Bezos has invested $30 billion in Blue Origin since its founding in 2000, an extraordinary commitment from the Amazon.com founder in a company that aims to rival SpaceX. on.wsj.com/3T7AL3z
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Engine Rich retweeted
What happens to The Great Launch Supply Crunch™️ when Google buys Rocket Lab or Relativity and takes all that future launch supply off the market for internal use?
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Orbital Data Centers are far distant technological goal, many years or even decades into the future.
... but for some reason Google urgently moved up their ODC test satellites from 2027 to Oct 2026.
Huh, that's weird.
Google's first Suncatcher orbital data center test launches October 1 arstechnica.com/google/2026/…
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Google really committing to the bit by keeping up the charade of orbital data centers in order to pump up their SpaceX pre-IPO shares.
blog.google/innovation-and-a…
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NASA administrator: we're going to try to get to the moon faster.
Space fans for some reason, before even hearing the plan: Noooooooooooo!
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Honeywell was like:
"Hey remember that guy who offered to go service and boost Hubble for free but NASA wouldn't let him? Let's have him pose in front of the actual real-life hardware from the last time Hubble was serviced on orbit. It'll be funny, you know. Like not "haha" funny, but like... people will get it."
We are using every minute we have on the road to get where things are happening, thank the NASA team, encourage our suppliers, spend time with the men and women who serve in uniform, and visit universities and young people who will shape what comes next.
Our first stop in Arizona was @Honeywell_Aero, where we met with the team and toured the facility. A personal highlight was seeing a Hubble Space Telescope reaction wheel assembly recovered during STS-82 in 1997. I have a special love for Hubble, so that was pretty incredible.
Then it was on to @DMAFB in Tucson to spend time with @usairforce Airmen and @CivilAirPatrol cadets, answering their questions about NASA and the future of American leadership in space.
Those cadets already have their sights set on space. We might have just met a few members of the first class of the United States Space Academy.
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European launcher crisis solved! Mission accomplished!
(In fairness, his broader point later in the thread is that Europe needs more launch, which is obviously true. I just couldn't get over the fact that he started by saying Europe has overcome the launcher crisis. On the contrary, they are still deeply engulfed in a terrible situation regarding launch availability, and it will take a decade to recover if they hurry and execute better than they ever have.)
Europe overcame the launcher crisis. But now we face the next, maybe even bigger challenge.
In the next ten years, an expected 50,000 satellites will be launched into space worldwide. For defence. For the economy. For mega constellations.
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Unfortunately, due to The Law of Conservation of Words...
Artificial intelligence will now be referred to as “super intelligence,” President Trump said at the U.N. General Assembly.
“All of United States documents, and hopefully the world’s, will be changed to use the much more accurate term ‘super.’” wapo.st/4yKXYHM
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