OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21)

Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by GMoromisato on Monday August 24, 2026 @04:28PM (#49425424)

Yours is the only valid argument. If space datacenters are not competitive with terrestrial (in terms of megatokens/$ or whatever), then they will never work and SpaceX will fail. That's the whole ball game.

But anyone who thinks they can predict those prices in ten years is wildly overconfident.

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Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by qlte on Monday August 24, 2026 @07:22PM (#49427167)

  > then they will never work and SpaceX will fail

Or, Elon pulls his classic narrative sleight of hand for like the 9th time and announces SpaceXesla is NOT a car, battery, solar, self-driving, robot, space launch, space datacenter, or AI company but now completely pivoting the business to [INSERT NEXT BIG THING] that will 100x the company in 6 months maybe, 6 years definitely.

Space Datacenters eventually get quietly discontinued after finally killing the zombie brand at which point the only reaction is "huh, remember that?"

https://techcrunch.com/2026/08/21/teslas-solar-roof-is-dead-...

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Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by GMoromisato on Monday August 24, 2026 @07:31PM (#49427248)

Are you saying that if space datacenters fail then SpaceX stock will go up? Then it sounds like you should invest a lot of money in them.

ETA: If you had invested $1,000 in 2016 when Tesla Roof was announced, you'd have $25,000 today. 25x return in 10 years.

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Re:OpenAI: GPT 5.6 Sol price reduction (until at least Nov 21) by Rover222 on Monday August 24, 2026 @11:14PM (#49428687)

remind me 3 years to laugh at how wrong you are

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