Amazon sends letter to FCC saying: Reject application of Elon Musk’s Spacex for Space data centers; gives three reasons to dismiss

Elon Musk’s Starlink rival Amazon Leo has sent a letter to Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to dismiss Spacex’s 1 million-satellite proposal for orbiting data centers. Amazon’s letter goes as far as to claim that the project would take “centuries” to deploy. Amazon’s 17-page filing to the FCC requests for complete rejection of the Starlink proposal. The letter says that Starlink’s application promises no less than a “first step towards becoming a Kardashev II-level civilization” — in other words, a society capable of harnessing the full power of the Sun — while “ensuring humanity’s multiplanetary future among the stars.”

Amazon’s letter questions why the FCC is processing SpaceX’s proposal, claiming that “the Commission has long refused to process speculative, conceptual, or otherwise incomplete filings.”