{"id":209320,"date":"2026-02-02T16:55:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T21:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/spacex-acquires-xai-plans-1-million-satellite-constellation-to-power-it\/"},"modified":"2026-02-02T18:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T23:15:09","slug":"spacex-acquires-xai-plans-1-million-satellite-constellation-to-power-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/02\/spacex-acquires-xai-plans-1-million-satellite-constellation-to-power-it\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX acquires xAI, plans 1 million satellite constellation to power it"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/02\/spacex-acquires-xai-plans-1-million-satellite-constellation-to-power-it\/\">SpaceX acquires xAI, plans 1 million satellite constellation to power it<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/02\/spacex-acquires-xai-plans-1-million-satellite-constellation-to-power-it\/\">https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/02\/spacex-acquires-xai-plans-1-million-satellite-constellation-to-power-it\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-02-02 16:55:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"arstechnica.com\">arstechnica.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has formally acquired another of Elon Musk\u2019s companies, xAi, the space company announced on Monday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based internet, direct-to-mobile device communications and the world\u2019s foremost real-time information and free speech platform,\u201d the company said. \u201cThis marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI\u2019s mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The merging of what is arguably Musk\u2019s most successful company, SpaceX, with the more speculative xAI venture is a risk. But Musk strongly believes that artificial intelligence is central to humanity\u2019s future and wants to be among those leading in its development.<\/p>\n<p>With this merger, he plans to use SpaceX\u2019s deep expertise in rapid launch and satellite manufacturing and management to deploy a constellation of up to 1 million orbital data centers. This will provide the backbone of computing power needed to support xAI\u2019s operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis new constellation will build upon the well-established space sustainability design and operational strategies, including end-of-life disposal, that have proven successful for SpaceX\u2019s existing broadband satellite systems,\u201d Musk wrote in an email to employees on Monday.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story, and it will be updated.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/02\/spacex-acquires-xai-plans-1-million-satellite-constellation-to-power-it\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX acquires xAI, plans 1 million satellite constellation to power it https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/space\/2026\/02\/spacex-acquires-xai-plans-1-million-satellite-constellation-to-power-it\/ Publish Date: 2026-02-02&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":209321,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.arstechnica.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/starship_march2025-1152x648.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-209320","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209320"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209320"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209320\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209322,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209320\/revisions\/209322"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209320"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209320"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209320"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}