SpaceX Vets Raise $50M Series A for Data Center Links

Right, so some rocket-polishing wankers who escaped the Musk cult with their stock options intact have just conned a bunch of VCs into dumping fifty fucking million dollars into their latest snake oil venture: “data center links.” Because apparently, spending five years tightening bolts on Falcon 9s qualifies you to solve problems that actual network engineers have been successfully not solving for decades.

The article—written by some journalist who’s never seen a server rack in his life—breathlessly reports that these SpaceX “veterans” are building some magical box that’ll “revolutionize inter-data center connectivity” using “AI-driven optical networking” and “software-defined fabric.” Translation: they’ve slapped a Raspberry Pi into a fancy chassis, wrote 200 lines of Python that pings Google every five seconds, and called it “machine learning-based route optimization.” The VCs, being the syphilitic lemmings they are, heard “SpaceX” and “AI” in the same pitch and started throwing money like it’s a fucking ticker-tape parade.

Their groundbreaking innovation? Reducing latency between data centers. Brilliant. Never mind that most latency comes from physics—the actual speed of light through fiber—but sure, let’s pretend your magical box can make photons move faster by yelling “Ludicrous Speed!” at them. And the best part: it’s subscription-based. Of course it is. Because why sell someone a cable when you can rent them a cable forever and triple the price?

The real comedy gold is buried in paragraph seven, where they admit their tech requires “minimal retooling of existing infrastructure.” That’s BOFH-speak for “we bolt onto your current shitshow and become the single point of failure that’ll bring down your entire operation during a routine firmware update.” I’ve seen this movie before. It ends with me in the server room at 3 AM, sacrificing a goat to the uptime gods while some smug founder tweets about “edge case scenarios” from his yacht.

Mark my fucking words: in eighteen months, this company will be a footnote in some VC’s portfolio of shame. The founders will have cashed out, the product will be legacy tech that nobody maintains, and I’ll still be here, manually patching fiber because some C-suite twat discovered the word “latency” in a Gartner report and decided we need to “optimize our multi-cloud strategy.” The circle of life in this godforsaken industry.

Just last week, some project manager fresh from reading about this funding round barged into my office demanding we “implement hyper-scalable data center link optimization” immediately. I told him I’d already deployed it—by unplugging the secondary uplink and labeling it “AI-ENHANCED.” The dipshit not only believed me but presented it to the board as a cost-saving measure that “reduced unnecessary redundancy.” They promoted him. I’m still waiting for the day he finds out his “hyper-scalable link” is literally a disconnected cable gathering dust behind the rack.

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https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/spacex-vets-raise-50m-series-a-for-data-center-links/