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Musk: Future Starship Flights Will Carry Over 50 Tb/s of Starlink Bandwidth ↗

Elon Musk said on X on November 14 that future Starship flights will each carry over 50 Tb/s of Starlink bandwidth to orbit. Official Starlink figures put today’s Flight 15 load of 26 V3 satellites at up to 26 terabits of capacity, or about 26 Tbps at 1 Tbps per satellite. Musk’s target is roughly double that, or more than 50 V3-class satellites in one flight.

Corporate announcementsScore 80

A rocket company is spending $74 billion on AI supercomputers: SpaceX unveils Texas and Arizona campuses, one drawing up to 6 gigawatts ↗

On Nov. 12 at 11:08 a.m. EST, SpaceX laid out plans for two "supercompute" campuses: more than $24 billion near its Starbase site in Texas and about $50 billion in Cochise County, Arizona, for a total above $74 billion. SpaceX says the Arizona site would draw up to 6 gigawatts, include 24 gigawatt-hours of battery storage and use no industrial water. The Arizona project still needs county approval, and residents and environmental groups near the Texas site have raised concerns.