SpaceX has set its sights on lofting enormous computing power into orbit. The company sees sun-powered satellites as the answer to exploding demand for AI training and inference that already strains terrestrial power grids and cooling systems. Yet its latest disclosures paint a sobering picture. Success hinges on acquiring far more advanced processors than exist today. The warning comes straight from SpaceX’s Form S-1 filing ahead of its anticipated IPO. Executives make no attempt to soften the message. “Our ability to achieve orbital AI at scale depends on our ability to access a sufficient number of AI chips, significantly more than are currently available to us,” the document states. And there it is. No hedging. No corporate spin. Just the blunt arithmetic of silicon scarcity. Procurement practices compound the problem. SpaceX buys its GPUs through individual purchase orders rather than long-term contracts with suppliers.…