SpaceX claims it will put a Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system into orbit next year
And fly ‘significant scale’ in 2028 – a claim that isn’t entirely bonkers, but needs a solid grain of salt
SpaceX will send at least one datacenter rack into space next year, according to Elon Musk, with more to follow in 2028.
The occasional trillionaire made that claim on Monday on the user-generated content platform – a.k.a. the social network X – that he runs in part to feed the Grok models SpaceX develops with up-to-date contextual data.
“SpaceX, in partnership with Nvidia, has designed a space-optimized Vera Rubin NVL72 system for launch to orbit in Q4 next year, with significant scale in 2028,” he Xeeted.
Nvidia offered a slightly different version of events in a press release that states SpaceX’s datacenter satellites “will be based on the optimized NVIDIA Vera Rubin NVL72 rack-scale system.”
The full NVL72 comprises 72 Rubin GPUs, 36 Vera CPUs, ConnectX-9 SuperNICs, and BlueField-4...
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