{"id":44067,"date":"2026-03-01T17:11:46","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:11:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=44067"},"modified":"2026-03-01T17:11:46","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T23:11:46","slug":"and-then-he-said-its-just-a-few","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/03\/01\/and-then-he-said-its-just-a-few\/","title":{"rendered":"And Then He Said, &#8220;It&#8217;s Just A Few&#8230;&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>NewScientist<\/strong><\/em> (14 February 2026, paywall) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/article\/2514106-why-did-spacex-just-apply-to-launch-1-million-satellites\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">reports<\/a> on the latest ambition of Elon Musk:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>In the company\u2019s latest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fccprod.servicenowservices.com\/icfs?id=ibfs_application_summary&amp;number=SAT-LOA-20260108-00016\">filing<\/a>\u00a0on 30 January, and also shared in an\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/updates#xai-joins-spacex\">update<\/a>\u00a0written by CEO Elon Musk, SpaceX said it wants to develop vast orbital data centres in space to power AI. \u201cLaunching a constellation of a million satellites that operate as orbital data centers is a first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization,\u201d Musk wrote, referring to the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newscientist.com\/lastword\/mg26335001-100-could-aliens-work-out-if-a-human-or-an-ape-built-the-tomb-they-lie-in\/\">Kardashev scale<\/a>, a method proposed by Soviet astronomer Nikolai Kardashev in 1964 to measure the technological prowess of a civilisation.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Uh. Seems a trifle overwrought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NewScientist (14 February 2026, paywall) reports on the latest ambition of Elon Musk: In the company\u2019s latest\u00a0filing\u00a0on 30 January, and also shared in an\u00a0update\u00a0written by CEO Elon Musk, SpaceX said it wants to develop vast orbital data centres in space to power AI. \u201cLaunching a constellation of a million satellites \u2026 <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2026\/03\/01\/and-then-he-said-its-just-a-few\/\"> Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr; <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-44067","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44067","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44067"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44067\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":44068,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44067\/revisions\/44068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}