SpaceX's AI spending unnerves Wall Street despite promises of quick payoff
Musk wants to be an AI pioneer through some combination of his company's Grok model and eventually by building data centers in space. The deals with Anthropic, Google and Reflection indicate that SpaceXAI, as the AI business is now known, built way more capacity at its mammoth data centers in Memphis than it's able to put to use. Musk said on the call that the company has a "series of projects" that cumulatively come to 20 gigawatts of capacity, including power and cooling, by the end of next year.
- ▪Musk wants to be an AI pioneer through some combination of his company's Grok model and eventually by building data centers in space.
- ▪The deals with Anthropic, Google and Reflection indicate that SpaceXAI, as the AI business is now known, built way more capacity at its mammoth data centers in Memphis than it's able to put to use.
- ▪Musk said on the call that the company has a "series of projects" that cumulatively come to 20 gigawatts of capacity, including power and cooling, by the end of next year.
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Musk wants to be an AI pioneer through some combination of his company's Grok model and eventually by building data centers in space. The deals with Anthropic, Google and Reflection indicate that SpaceXAI, as the AI business is now known, built way more capacity at its mammoth data centers in Memphis than it's able to put to use. Musk said on the call that the company has a "series of projects" that cumulatively come to 20 gigawatts of capacity, including power and cooling, by the end of next year. "Some of them won't pan out exactly on time, but I would expect that we'd still probably have, at the power plant level, something close to 15GW," Musk said. There are also potential legal headwinds.
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