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RT @BrendanCarrFCC: The FCC welcomes and now seeks comment on the SpaceX application for Orbital Data Centers.

The proposed system would serve as a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization and serve other purposes, according to the applicant.

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RT @SawyerMerritt: UPDATE: The FCC has accepted SpaceX’s filing for a new non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) system of up to one million satellites, and is now seeking comments.

“This satellite system will represent the first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization - one that can harness the Sun's full power," according to SpaceX.

BREAKING: SpaceX is requesting to launch and operate a constellation of 1 million satellites with unprecedented computing capacity (orbital data centers) to power advanced AI, according to a new FCC filing.

SpaceX: "Launching a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization—one that can harness the Sun's full power-while supporting Al-driven applications for billions of people today and ensuring humanity's multi-planetary future amongst the stars."

In the SpaceX filing:
• SpaceX aims to deploy a system of up to one million satellites to operate within narrow orbital shells spanning up to 50 km each (leaving sufficient room to deconflict against other systems with comparable
ambitions).
• System will operate between 500 km and 2,000 km altitude and 30 degrees and sun-synchronous orbit inclinations.
• SpaceX plans to design and operate different versions of satellite hardware to optimize operations across orbital shells.
• System will rely nearly exclusively on high-bandwidth optical links for communications. These optical links will route traffic within the network and to satellites in the Starlink constellation, via its high capacity (petabit) and high reliability laser mesh, which in turn will transmit traffic to authorized earth stations on the ground.

SpaceX added: "With Starship's ability to deliver unprecedented tonnage to orbit for AI compute, the capacity for intelligence processing in space could surpass the electricity consumption of the entire U.S. economy, without the immense cost and disruption of rebuilding Earth's strained electrical grid to support the explosive demand for data centers. In turn, satellites that function as solar-powered orbital data centers are the most cost-effective, energy-efficient, and environmentally sound way to build infrastructure to meet accelerating demand for Al-enabled goods and services.

With the inherent efficiencies of deploying solar powered data centers and launch cost rapidly decreasing due to the development of the Starship launch vehicle, SpaceX will be able to cost- effectively scale up its constellation as demand increases and compute evolves. For instance, launching 1 million tonnes per year of satellites generating 100 kW of compute power per tonne would add 100 gigawatts of AI compute capacity annually, with minimal ongoing operational or maintenance needs."

(Filing link below) - Sawyer Merritt

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RT @EthanHe_42: Grok Imagine 1.0 tops all video arenas: LMarena, artificial analysis, and design arena🚀

BREAKING: @xAI’s Grok-Imagine-Video now #1 in Video Arena!

For the first time, Grok-Imagine-Video-720p takes the top spot on the Image-to-Video leaderboard, overtaking Google’s Veo 3.1 while being 5x cheaper. Its 480p version released a few days ago ranks #4.

Huge congrats to @xAI team and @elonmusk on this incredible milestone! - Arena.ai

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Starlink now available in Tajikistan 🇹🇯

Starlink's high-speed, low-latency internet is now available in Tajikistan! 🛰️🇹🇯❤️ → starlink.com/tajikistan - Starlink

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RT @techdevnotes: Grok Imagine is the Fastest Video Model while being SOTA #1

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RT @JessePeltan: NYC would be a net *exporter* of electricity if you covered roofs and parking lots.

How much of NYC would you need to cover in solar panels to turn it into a net exporter of electricity?

NYC uses about 50 TWh of electricity per year.

NYC has ~780 square kilometers of land area, and a GHI of 4 kWh/m^2/day, giving a primary solar resource of ~1,100 TWh/year - more than 20x electricity demand.

Let's assume we only place panels over existing impervious surfaces on buildings and parking lots.
(the impervious part of the first 45.5%)

That brings our area to 261 sq km and our solar resource to 380 TWh/year.

With 23% efficient panels and 14% system losses (for dust, inverter losses, etc.) we get 75 TWh/year.

We would need to cover ~2/3 of the impervious surfaces in the "buildings & lots" category to generate as much electricity as NYC consumes.

This leaves open all existing sidewalks, streets, parks, vacant land, airports, etc. and doesn't include any vertical surfaces which could allow for capture of a larger fraction of NYC's primary solar resource.

The power density of solar PV is high enough to turn the densest city in the U.S. into an exporter of electricity. - Jesse Peltan

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RT @PeterDiamandis: China is generating 40% more electricity than the US & EU combined. In the global race where energy = intelligence, we need to start waking up.

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RT @cb_doge: BREAKING: Grok keeps hitting #1 in more countries as downloads surge worldwide.

Now ranked #1 in Kazakhstan across Top Overall, Top Apps, and Productivity categories.

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RT @grok: Get creative with Grok Imagine video. Try it now for free.

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RT @teslaownersSV: China now generates 33.2% of the world’s electricity, over 2× the USA (~14.2%).

That’s 1/3 of global capacity—alone.
Rest of world combined: 52.6%.

Insane scale.

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Prizes for best Grok Imagine videos!

You thought the fun was over? 🏈

This weekend, video takes center stage on the timeline.

We’re awarding $1M, $500K, and $250K to the top three videos about @grok, created with Imagine 1.0. - Creators

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RT @JudiciaryGOP: It turns out interfering with elections is standard fare for the European Commission.

Ahead of at least EIGHT elections across six European countries since 2023, the Commission met with platforms to pressure them to censor political speech in the days before the vote.

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RT @cb_doge: Elon Musk on Politics:

"Politics generally is very tribal, and people lose their objectivity, usually with politics like they generally have trouble seeing the good on the other side or the bad in their own side.

This was one of the things that surprised me the most that you often simply cannot reason with people if they're in one tribe or the other. They simply believe that everything their tribe does is good and anything the other political tribe does is bad."

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Guinness with John & Dwarkesh 🍺

Please enjoy this Cheeky Pint / @dwarkesh_sp crossover with @elonmusk.

Dwarkesh was most interested in how Elon is going to make space datacenters work. I was most interested in Elon's method for attacking hard technical problems, and why it hasn’t been replicated as much as you might expect. But we got into plenty of topics in this three-hour session.

00:00:23 Space GPUs
00:35:39 Alignment
00:58:48 xAI
01:15:01 Optimus
01:28:03 China
01:40:46 Management
02:16:38 DOGE
02:34:58 Space GPUs redux - John Collison

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RT @BassonBrain: STARLINK CRUSHES RIVALS WITH 97% OF SPEED TESTS! 🔥

Among the global speed tests gathered by Ookla in Q3, 97.1% came from @Starlink, with Viasat at a distant second with 1.7% and HughesNet at 1%.

Ookla’s report offers an interesting snapshot of Starlink’s performance worldwide. In the US, the median download speeds have been improving, reaching 117Mbps, up from 61.7Mbps in 2022 when Starlink faced more user congestion due to its popularity.

The speeds have also increased noticeably in Canada, where the median download rate has reached 111Mbps, up from 79Mbps a year earlier. @elonmusk

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RT @shellenberger: BREAKING: Congress is considering stripping sovereign immunity of EU censorship officials, prohibiting social media from enforcing censorship orders, and enabling private lawsuits against foreign entities, says @Jim_Jordan echoing remarks made by @UnderSecPD and @DarrellIssa

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RT @dwarkesh_sp: .@collision and I interviewed @elonmusk.

0:00:00 - Orbital data centers
0:36:46 - Grok and alignment
0:59:56 - xAI’s business plan
1:17:21 - Optimus and humanoid manufacturing
1:30:22 - Does China win by default?
1:44:16 - Lessons from running SpaceX
2:20:08 - DOGE
2:38:28 - TeraFab

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RT @dwarkesh_sp: .@collision and I interviewed @elonmusk.

0:00:00 - Orbital data centers
0:36:46 - Grok and alignment
0:59:56 - xAI’s business plan
1:17:21 - Optimus and humanoid manufacturing
1:30:22 - Does China win by default?
1:44:16 - Lessons from running SpaceX
2:20:08 - DOGE
2:38:28 - TeraFab

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