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SpaceX Can Land a Rocket but Couldn't Keep Its Data Centers Cool, So Musk Is Now Casting His Own Turbine Blades
Season 2026
Episode 173
Published 1 month ago
Description
The Information reported on September 1 that SpaceX has handed its AI data center operations to Starlink's engineering chief and pulled rocket-production executives into the unit after its Memphis-area sites ran for months without backup cooling and power, missed the internal 99.9% uptime target and interrupted model training. The shake-up follows a wave of departures, comes days after Musk confirmed SpaceX will cast its own gas turbine blades in Texas, and lands weeks before Google's $920 million-a-month compute contract starts at full rate in October.
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