The SpaceX & xAI Merger
Host Emily Laird breaks down the SpaceX–xAI merger, the trillion-dollar wedding, and the shiny promise of AI data centers in space. The dream is simple: more inference, more compute, less waiting, all powered by sunlight and swagger. The reality is messier, cooling in a vacuum is brutal, maintenance is a mission, and regulators like the FCC can turn “cartoon scale” into “please take a number.” If this works, it is infrastructure, not a chatbot, and once somebody owns the pipes above your head, you do not get them back with rocket emojis.
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