Aaron Burnett

@aaronburnett · Feb 17, 2026

SpaceX is painfully serious about space data centers. They have a cyclotron to test their flight hardware. It’s not only data center hardware that benefits from this ramp up in testing cadence. But it’s not a huge leap to assume that there will be some data center chips headed

Christian Keil@pronounced_kyle· Feb 17, 2026

If you want data centers in space, you need radiation-tolerant chips. Specifically, chips that survive both: ▸ a cumulative "total ionizing dose" (TID) ▸ bit-flipping, energetic particle strikes (SEE) The latter is scariest. Google tested its Trillium chips and found that the

Elon Musk

@elonmusk

Yes

07:05 PM · February 17, 2026 · 30.5K views

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