{"id":230761,"date":"2026-06-12T11:43:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T15:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/elon-musk-offers-details-on-spacex-orbital-data-center-plan-amid-ipo\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T12:30:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T16:30:15","slug":"elon-musk-offers-details-on-spacex-orbital-data-center-plan-amid-ipo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/12\/elon-musk-offers-details-on-spacex-orbital-data-center-plan-amid-ipo\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk offers details on SpaceX orbital data center plan amid IPO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/06\/12\/elon-musk-spacex-orbital-data-center-ai-satellites\/90520416007\/\">Elon Musk offers details on SpaceX orbital data center plan amid IPO<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/06\/12\/elon-musk-spacex-orbital-data-center-ai-satellites\/90520416007\/\">https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/06\/12\/elon-musk-spacex-orbital-data-center-ai-satellites\/90520416007\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-12 11:43:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.usatoday.com\">www.usatoday.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elon Musk plans for SpaceX to launch up to 1 million AI satellites into orbit to establish orbital data centers using artificial intelligence.<\/li>\n<li>The AI satellites aim to be much larger but simpler than the current Starlink satellites.<\/li>\n<li>The demonstration launches for the AI satellites are planned to begin by late 2027, with full deployment starting as early as 2028.<\/li>\n<li>This project coincides with SpaceX\u2019s record-breaking initial public offering, which aims to fund these ambitious ventures.<\/li>\n<li>Musk envisions orbital data centers as a more efficient alternative to ground-based data centers due to cost, space requirements, and environmental impact factors.<\/li>\n<li>The development of this satellite technology involves integrating the AI startup xAI, known for the Grok chatbot.<\/li>\n<li>For comparison, SpaceX has already deployed around 10,000 Starlink broadband internet satellites since 2019.<\/li>\n<li>The IPO raised $75 billion, making it the largest in history and potentially making Musk the world\u2019s first trillionaire.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk offers details on SpaceX orbital data center plan amid IPO https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/news\/nation\/2026\/06\/12\/elon-musk-spacex-orbital-data-center-ai-satellites\/90520416007\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230763,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/gcdn\/authoring\/authoring-images\/2026\/05\/27\/PBRE\/90275134007-20260521-t-004559-z-1876455002-rc-2-rzkaqd-03-x-rtrmadp-3-australiasocialmediamuskx.JPG?crop=1871,1053,x0,y97&width=1871&height=1053&format=pjpg&auto=webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-230761","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230761"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=230761"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230761\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":230764,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/230761\/revisions\/230764"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230763"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=230761"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=230761"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=230761"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}