Maybe the car plant tesla never arrive. On Linkedin there is no longer a single vacant position in Mexico for this company.
But pay attention to what is happening between the metropolitan area of Monterrey and Elon Musk’s businesses, even outside of Earth.
Here I told them in April from dozens of companies that have already invested, presumably to supply the company’s plants in Austin: Yanfeng Seatingseat manufacturer; Brembo, that of the brakes; the Taiwanese Quanta Computer and the German ZF, that invests 200 million dollars in an advanced development center.
Not to mention, Mexicans are late to electric cars where the Chinese are ahead.
Where are there a handful of compatriots who did line up at the front of the line?
Review the story of Monterrey engineer Eduardo Garza T Fernández, who more than 50 years ago established a workshop to forge specialized steel for machine manufacturers who in the seventies struggled with breaking steel parts.
His company Frisa focused so much on solving detailed problems that it eventually ended up selling steel to aerospace companies such as Rolls Royce, which also has an aircraft engine business.
Inevitably, that Nuevo León company reached space: “Every time there is a Space X launch, there is a product manufactured in Santa Catarina,” said in August the president of the company, Eduardo Garza T Junco, son of the founder of Frisa, during an industrial exhibition called Expo Pyme, during which he announced an investment of 200 million dollars precisely to increase the capacity of its plants in García and Santa Catarina.
But are these royals crazy? What are they doing following Musk’s dreams of SpaceX?
It turns out that it’s not just Musk’s. Where is the fortune of Jeff Bezos, founder of Amazon and AWS, also going? Did she lose her mind by throwing his money out of space through her company Blue Origin?
Ask the well-known consultants at McKinsey & Company, that agency that seems to know everything that happens in each office, which made it an “advisor” on many of the cutting-edge global business projects.
Last month he published The document: “Space: The $1.8 Trillion Opportunity for Global Economic Growth.” What he warns is that space could well be today, let’s say, what the internet was at the beginning of the century.
McKinsey says that there is already an economy underway of 630 billion dollars annually, which by 2035 will be worth 1.8 trillion dollars (1.8 billion).
Want a quick reference? In 2000, Apple was worth $8 billion. Now, 24 years later, 2.8 billion dollars.
Most humans continue to think, logically, about the business that can be done on Earth, but think about an example: the opportunity to put data centers like those of AWS, but orbital, to save air conditioning and electricity, and manufactured with materials available on the Moon, which match those on Earth. Today it seems unreal.
In 2000 it sounded illogical to fantasize about an iPad, YouTube or Netflix.
Are the Garza Ts the only Mexicans in line? Not necessarily. The Mexican Andrés Martínez appears at NASA, in charge of several projects to return humans to the Moon with the Artemisa project. I have also told you here about the Mexican born in Argentina Gustavo Medina Tanco, who works at the UNAM with the Colmena project, a lunar mining project, whose devices traveled on the Peregrine ship, from the American Astrobotic.
In Yucatán, Ciclo Corporativo, by José Antonio Loret de Mola, promotes the Chichén Itzá Airport as an alternative base for space landings.
You can blame them and me for being deluded, but you have to include McKinsey consultants in that description.
