Elon Musk is merging SpaceX and xAI to build data centers in space — or so he says

On Monday, Elon Musk announced that helium 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," helium said, which comes astatine large disbursal to the situation and assemblage opposition. The solution: information centers successful space. "In the agelong term, space-based AI is evidently the lone mode to scale," Musk said.

Musk isn't the lone 1 looking to motorboat information centers into orbit. Google has Project Suncatcher to physique solar- …

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