(Photo: AFP)SAN FRANCISCO - Elon Musk has announced that his rocket company SpaceX will take over his artificial intelligence outfit xAI, as he seeks to raise billions of dollars for his science fiction-worthy outer space projects. Musk wrote on the SpaceX website on Monday that the merger further entwining his business interests would create “the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth”. Space data centresBehind the science fiction language is a plan to use SpaceX’s rockets to launch solar powered, satellite-based data centres to develop and run future AI models. “Global electricity demand for AI simply cannot be met with terrestrial solutions… The only logical solution therefore is to transport these resource-intensive efforts to a location with vast power and space,” Musk wrote. Musk had previously opposed an IPO for SpaceX because he had not enjoyed the required scrutiny of publicly traded carmaker Tesla.

Source: Bangkok Post February 03, 2026 12:48 UTC