SpaceX’s AI business, which operated independently as xAI until a February merger, generates revenue through two segments. Much of SpaceX’s AI infrastructure is concentrated in its Colossus data center cluster in the suburbs of Memphis, Tennessee. As for the plans for those orbital data centers, SpaceX leaders worked to frame them as an imminent reality more than a sci-fi pipe dream. Musk’s specific vision, outlined in a filing with the Federal Communications Commission earlier this year, involves a constellation of up to a million solar-powered satellites designed to function as interconnected AI data centers. And while he acknowledged the challenges of making orbital data centers a reality — calling terrestrial data centers a “trivial problem” compared to launching them into space — he also emphasized that he expects the first test launch of Nvidia-equipped Starmind satellites in the coming months.