๐Ÿšจ BREAKING: SpaceX just locked up 100+ GW of solar cell manufacturing equipment from German toolmaker SINGULUS to build STARMIND AI satellites The first turnkey heterojunction line arrives in Bastrop, Texas in H1 2027, running wet chemistry, vacuum coating and thermal processing under one roof. Elon Musk says most of the mass of a Starmind satellite is solar panels, meaning the solar cell factory is the satellite factory. 100 GW is enough solar for 400,000 Starmind sats โ€œTime to make the mind of a sentient sun.โ€

Nov 10, 2026 ยท 8:35 PM UTC

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We are lucky to have Elon smashing through all these stupid municipal bans on data center construction. This is what makes capitalism beautiful and valuable.
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Elon and SpaceX is definitely not holding back, watch this space
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Spacex ainโ€™t wasting time
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That's a lot of solar gear
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@elonmusk thank you 100GW is an amazing start.
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Building a real moat. The internet in space. No one will be able to compete for decades.
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Huge wave of orbital racks needs a lot of matetials
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100 gw for orbital solar is wild scale
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Bro, I don't know much about science but what about radiation concerns? Everything you just said, sounds like so much work. Elon is a great guy forget it.
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This sounds amazing but what's the risk EMFs. Does it improve or get worse with the SpaceX system?
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What about Grock? Star mind will be a different SI?
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Half a million panels per day, every day, to reach 100GW per year. Then 27 Starship launches per day, every day, to get them into orbit (not even counting the rest of the equipment). Neither of these are happening in 2027, or 2028, or 2029 for that matter.
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If you zoom in on the left you can see whatโ€™s powering my Grok Bots ๐Ÿ™ƒ
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sounds cool
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Mass-producing solar cells for hundreds of thousands of satellites could let aerospace companies scale hardware deployment at software speed.
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Awesome animation! Well done!
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That river is so fucked.
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@grok ์ด๋ฏธ ์šฐ์ฃผ์—์„œ ์Šคํƒ€๋งˆ์ธ๋“œ(ํƒœ์–‘๊ด‘) ์œ„์„ฑ์„ ๋ฐœ์‚ฌํ•ด์„œ ์ˆ˜์ตํ™”ํ•˜๋Š” ๊ธฐ์—…์ด ์žˆ๋‚˜์š”? ๋กœ์ผ“๋žฉ์—์„œ ๋งŒ๋“ค๊ณ  ์žˆ๋‹ค๊ณ ๋Š” ํ•˜๋˜๋ฐ ๊ถ๊ธˆํ•ด์š”
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Insane
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Great deal, thanks Elon now small Bastrop is flying to sky as greatest satelite town ever ๐Ÿค๐Ÿซก๐Ÿ‡บ๐Ÿ‡ธ๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐Ÿš€๐Ÿ›ฐ๏ธ๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘
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DYSONNNNN SPHERESSSS HELL YEAHHHH ๐Ÿฆ…
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Crystal Sun i get it now.
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Interesting
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Que esplรชndido!
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"The solar cell factory is the satellite factory" is such a clean way to put it.
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Anthropic software + SpaceX hardware... it's going to be wonderful
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Maravilha
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Bravo @elonmusk!
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