Elon Musk Is Merging Spacex And Xai To Build Data Centers In Space — Or So He Says

On Monday, Elon Musk announced that he was merging 2 of his companies, SpaceX and xAI, successful a woody said to beryllium worthy $1.25 trillion. The reason, Musk said successful an announcement, was that successful bid for AI to grow, it needed to spell to space.

AI relies connected "large terrestrial information centers" that tally connected "immense amounts of powerfulness and cooling," he said, which comes astatine awesome disbursal to nan situation and organization opposition. The solution: information centers successful space. "In nan agelong term, space-based AI is evidently nan only measurement to scale," Musk said.

Musk isn't nan only 1 looking to motorboat information centers into orbit. Google has Project Suncatcher to build solar- …

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