The same day Artemis II successfully launched for the moon, SpaceX sought its moonshot with a confidential IPO, Project Apex, to raise $50 billion and $75 billion for orbital data centers. Analysts estimate a post-IPO valuation for SpaceX could go as high as $1.5 trillion to $1.75 trillion. The primary goal in Elon Musk’s orbital data center initiative is Artificial Superintelligence (ASI). Many analysts, scientists, and other experts have argued that current terrestrial power capacity is sufficient to support human-level needs and current AI workloads. In fact, just yesterday, the World Economic Forum posited that “the world doesn’t need more power, but rather a smarter energy grid.” But, SpaceX and other ASI proponents like Google (with PlanetLabs), Nvidia (with StarCloud), Microsoft, and Microsoft (with Axiom), argue it’s physically and economically impossible to scale Earth’s power grid to the terawatt (TW) levels required for future ASI. For now, there is rising debate about the viability, and the impact on not only the night sky for most of humanity, but for science, for atmospheric and environmental damage, as well as global sovereignty for all nations (if one company grabs up all the celestial “real estate,” leaving little for other countries). Debates are growing around whether massive AI computing infrastructure in space is a viable solution to Earth’s energy and land constraints, or a potentially reckless strategy that will do irreparable harm. RCRTech will follow the story as it evolves.