SpaceX has reportedly filed confidential paperwork for an initial public offering in which the company would raise $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation. And according to CEO Elon Musk, orbital data centers will be a big part of SpaceX's future. It will take significant tech development and massive capital spending to make orbital data centers a reality, but as Sean noted, with 'opposition happening around the country to data centers in general,' executives like Musk and Jeff Bezos may be thinking, 'The engineering challenge may be less than the social challenge back here' on Earth. Sean: This has been a trend ' I would say a rapidly forming trend ' over the last half year to a year, and we have different examples of it. We have SpaceX; I feel like in some ways, Elon Musk was late on this trend. And for the moment, let's set aside the actual mechanics and the viability of data centers in space. We could talk about that in a second if we want, but ' Sean: Yeah, I think it's a...
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