Sam Altman says orbital data centers are 'ridiculous' this decade. Elon says they'll launch in 2 years. But listen closely: Altman says space won't matter 'this decade' — which has only 3.5 years left. Elon's launch timeline agrees. The real story is OpenAI's conflict of interest as it retreats from owning data centers and delays its IPO, while Anthropic partners with SpaceX AI for compute.