NewScientist (14 February 2026, paywall) reports on the latest ambition of Elon Musk:
In the company’s latest filing on 30 January, and also shared in an update written by CEO Elon Musk, SpaceX said it wants to develop vast orbital data centres in space to power AI. “Launching a constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization,” Musk wrote, referring to the Kardashev scale, a method proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964 to measure the technological prowess of a civilisation.
Uh. Seems a trifle overwrought.
