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Aiming for the Moon: Why Musk wants to build AI satellite factory on lunar surface

Elon Musk, the world’s richest man, wants to build an AI satellite factory on the Moon. The development comes as his tech company xAI has witnessed a raft of exits over the past few weeks. So, what’s going on?

SpaceX to prioritise building self-growing city on moon, Musk says

CEO Elon Musk is finally moving over 'the city in Mars' dream, but now has other plans in mind. In a recent X post, he says that SpaceX is overriding priority to a build a civilisation on the Moon.

‘We are not developing a phone’: Musk quashes Starlink phone speculation

Elon Musk has dismissed reports that SpaceX is developing a Starlink phone, calling the idea unappealing and denying any such plans. The clarification comes amid speculation linking a potential device to Starlink’s rapid growth and possible future IPO discussions.

Elon Musk predicts space will be the most affordable place for AI data centres in 3 years

Elon Musk says the most cost-effective place to run artificial intelligence won’t be on Earth but in orbit, as SpaceX and xAI plan a million-satellite network of solar-powered data centres in space.

Musk vows to put data centers in space and run them on solar power but experts have their doubts

Elon Musk vowed this week to upend another industry just as he did with cars and rockets and once again he's taking on long odds.

SpaceX buys xAI in $250 billion mega deal as Musk looks to unify AI and space ambitions: Report

Under the terms of the deal, investors in xAI will receive 0.1433 shares of SpaceX for every share of xAI they hold. Some xAI executives may opt to receive cash instead of SpaceX stock, at $75.46 per xAI share

SpaceX seeks FCC nod for solar-powered satellite data centers for AI

SpaceX's request bets heavily on reduced costs of Starship, the company's next-generation reusable rocket under development.

Elon Musk's SpaceX in merger talks with Tesla and xAI

If this happens, the combination would bring Musk’s rockets, Starlink satellites, X social media platform and Grok chatbot under one roof.

China plans space‑based AI data centres, challenging Musk's SpaceX ambitions

Along with space‑based artificial intelligence data centres, China also plans to shift the energy-intensive burden of AI processing into orbit, utilising "gigawatt-class" solar-powered hubs to create an industrial-scale "Space Cloud" by 2030.

Superstition of a trillionaire? Elon Musk eyes to time SpaceX IPO to planetary alignment, birthday

Billionaire Elon Musk is weighing a SpaceX IPO date guided as much by superstition as strategy, with people familiar with the matter saying he has floated mid-June to coincide with a rare planetary alignment and his own birthday.