A few comments and replies from notable industry and research orgs on SpaceX's FCC filing for 1 million data centers in LEO space.
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A few comments and replies from notable industry and research orgs on SpaceX's FCC filing for 1 million data centers in LEO space.
AAS: https://pub-92a1d770e9be416e8558d475b4b5b847.r2.dev/afb0661e-408a-4b87-b72e-87c20f38b0cd.pdf
AAS: https://www.scribd.com/document/1008734610/American-Astronomical-Society-SpaceX-Orbital-Data-Centers-Petition-to-Deny
Viasat: https://www.scribd.com/document/1008733917/PUBLIC-Petition-to-Deny-SpaceX-Data-Center-Application-3-6-2026
Amazon: https://www.scribd.com/document/1008722503/Amazon-Petition-to-Deny-SpaaaceX-Data-Center-Application
SEA: https://googlegroups.com/a/sea-astronomia.es/group/sea-anuncios/attach/1bf8709013962/SEA_request_SAT-LOA-20260108-00016.pdf?part=0.1
CSE: https://pub-92a1d770e9be416e8558d475b4b5b847.r2.dev/a92d3df3-4e07-4b07-905f-3a513cca474a.pdfhttps://x.com/fccfilingalerts is a good source for these filings and comments.
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A few comments and replies from notable industry and research orgs on SpaceX's FCC filing for 1 million data centers in LEO space.
AAS: https://pub-92a1d770e9be416e8558d475b4b5b847.r2.dev/afb0661e-408a-4b87-b72e-87c20f38b0cd.pdf
AAS: https://www.scribd.com/document/1008734610/American-Astronomical-Society-SpaceX-Orbital-Data-Centers-Petition-to-Deny
Viasat: https://www.scribd.com/document/1008733917/PUBLIC-Petition-to-Deny-SpaceX-Data-Center-Application-3-6-2026
Amazon: https://www.scribd.com/document/1008722503/Amazon-Petition-to-Deny-SpaaaceX-Data-Center-Application
SEA: https://googlegroups.com/a/sea-astronomia.es/group/sea-anuncios/attach/1bf8709013962/SEA_request_SAT-LOA-20260108-00016.pdf?part=0.1
CSE: https://pub-92a1d770e9be416e8558d475b4b5b847.r2.dev/a92d3df3-4e07-4b07-905f-3a513cca474a.pdfhttps://x.com/fccfilingalerts is a good source for these filings and comments.
@sundogplanets
1/nTo that end, Tesla and SpaceX announced “TERAFAB,” a joint $25 billion chip fabrication facility in Austin, Texas, that Elon Musk claims will produce 1 terawatt of computing power annually. It would be the largest semiconductor fab ever built — by an absurd margin.
Terafab will produce 2 types of chips: inference chips for Tesla vehicles and Optimus robots, and D3 chips custom-designed for orbital AI, using a 2 nm process.
https://mashable.com/article/tesla-terafab-chip-plant
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musks-terafab-is-here-what-it-is-and-why-its-important-for-tesla-and-spacex-163426221.html
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To that end, Tesla and SpaceX announced “TERAFAB,” a joint $25 billion chip fabrication facility in Austin, Texas, that Elon Musk claims will produce 1 terawatt of computing power annually. It would be the largest semiconductor fab ever built — by an absurd margin.
Terafab will produce 2 types of chips: inference chips for Tesla vehicles and Optimus robots, and D3 chips custom-designed for orbital AI, using a 2 nm process.
https://mashable.com/article/tesla-terafab-chip-plant
https://finance.yahoo.com/news/elon-musks-terafab-is-here-what-it-is-and-why-its-important-for-tesla-and-spacex-163426221.html
2/nelectrek's take on TERAFAB:
"This announcement is clearly designed to attach Tesla, a business in decline, and SpaceX, a business about to go public, to the AI hyperscaler narrative.
It sounds impressive on stage but has essentially zero connection to any near-term business reality.
The whole thing reeks of desperation. He’s promising to do in a couple of years what TSMC has spent decades and hundreds of billions of dollars building."
https://electrek.co/2026/03/22/tesla-spacex-terafab-chip-factory-ai-desperation/
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A few comments and replies from notable industry and research orgs on SpaceX's FCC filing for 1 million data centers in LEO space.
AAS: https://pub-92a1d770e9be416e8558d475b4b5b847.r2.dev/afb0661e-408a-4b87-b72e-87c20f38b0cd.pdf
AAS: https://www.scribd.com/document/1008734610/American-Astronomical-Society-SpaceX-Orbital-Data-Centers-Petition-to-Deny
Viasat: https://www.scribd.com/document/1008733917/PUBLIC-Petition-to-Deny-SpaceX-Data-Center-Application-3-6-2026
Amazon: https://www.scribd.com/document/1008722503/Amazon-Petition-to-Deny-SpaaaceX-Data-Center-Application
SEA: https://googlegroups.com/a/sea-astronomia.es/group/sea-anuncios/attach/1bf8709013962/SEA_request_SAT-LOA-20260108-00016.pdf?part=0.1
CSE: https://pub-92a1d770e9be416e8558d475b4b5b847.r2.dev/a92d3df3-4e07-4b07-905f-3a513cca474a.pdfhttps://x.com/fccfilingalerts is a good source for these filings and comments.
@sundogplanets
1/n@AkaSci @sundogplanets Musk has totally lost the plot.
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electrek's take on TERAFAB:
"This announcement is clearly designed to attach Tesla, a business in decline, and SpaceX, a business about to go public, to the AI hyperscaler narrative.
It sounds impressive on stage but has essentially zero connection to any near-term business reality.
The whole thing reeks of desperation. He’s promising to do in a couple of years what TSMC has spent decades and hundreds of billions of dollars building."
https://electrek.co/2026/03/22/tesla-spacex-terafab-chip-factory-ai-desperation/
3/n@AkaSci Chip making is like being a chef, but with a recipe having 1000 steps in it (absolutely not an exaggeration). If anything goes even slightly wrong, you have ruined a part, but it's hard to know until the end of the line. Coming up with the recipe, as well as knowing the things to avoid (vibration from a road, power fluctuations from the grid, air con shutting down for 5 minutes) is closely guarded institutional knowledge aka trade secrets worth billions. Musk doesn't stand a chance.
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@AkaSci Chip making is like being a chef, but with a recipe having 1000 steps in it (absolutely not an exaggeration). If anything goes even slightly wrong, you have ruined a part, but it's hard to know until the end of the line. Coming up with the recipe, as well as knowing the things to avoid (vibration from a road, power fluctuations from the grid, air con shutting down for 5 minutes) is closely guarded institutional knowledge aka trade secrets worth billions. Musk doesn't stand a chance.
@trouble @AkaSci where I work we can have two "identical machines" right next to each other and get different yields depending on which is used. It's not just complicated, it's absolutely shocking that it works at all. I don't think there's a more complicated manufacturing process that operates at the scale of millions to billions of units per year. The idea of anyone scaling up a fab with no experience is so laughable that it belongs in The Onion
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@trouble @AkaSci where I work we can have two "identical machines" right next to each other and get different yields depending on which is used. It's not just complicated, it's absolutely shocking that it works at all. I don't think there's a more complicated manufacturing process that operates at the scale of millions to billions of units per year. The idea of anyone scaling up a fab with no experience is so laughable that it belongs in The Onion
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… investors with a need to launder money?
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You think so? Vulnerable grannies maybe, but anyone with a brain will shy away … unless they have urgent NEED of 'losing' a wad of money.
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