Orbital compute crosses below terrestrial cost

Claim

Mach33 found that producing 10,000 Starships a year makes orbital compute cheaper than terrestrial datacenter builds, $300 million of transport against $14 billion of land, and drops point-to-point travel to $1,000 a seat.

Reported metric: $300M vs $14B

Reporting date: 2026-01-08 (not necessarily the event date)

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