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Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers. A public offering will allow SpaceX ...

Elon Musk unveiled the AI1 concept on June 8, 2026, and the company followed with technical details the next day, timed to the week of its highly anticipated initial public offering. Musk has ...

Here’s one metric for tracking SpaceX’s IPO later this week: The company has changed the venture industry’s perspective on long-term, capital-intensive space so much that a talented founder with no ...

SpaceX's Orbiting Data Centers Will Use Liquid Cooling, But Don't Expect Water Since space is a vacuum that experiences extreme temperature swings, the AI satellites will likely use ammonia, rather ...

SpaceX on Monday offered the closest look yet into its plans to eventually operate data centers in space, a technology it’s billed as central to its future. In a roughly 31-minute video posted on ...

Elon and SpaceX are targeting 1000 starship launches in 2028 and 3000 in 2029 and 8000 in 2030. Elon talked about rough general goals for AI data center in space 1 GW next year, 10 GW in 2028, 100 GW ...

ANAHEIM, Calif. — It’s a lofty goal: Build the first “energy grid” in space to beam power to satellites, and even to future data centers in orbit, if companies like Elon Musk’s SpaceX succeed in ...

Critics say that setting up orbital data centers is easier said than done. But Musk argues that it's not a 'super hard problem' to solve. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made space-based ...

The Space Data Network Backbone is envisioned to be a resilient and optically connected satellite constellation The program is designed to deliver secure, high-speed and high-bandwidth data links for ...