News - Elon Musk
The latest news from the data center, telco, and cloud sector
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DOGE shuts down General Services Administration technology consulting unit
Mark Cuban offers support and investmet
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Man who threatened to burn down xAI's Memphis data center charged with terrorism
Bought illegal explosives and considered targeting Elon Musk's firm
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SpaceX's Starlink lines up to swoop Verizon's $2.4bn FAA contract - report
Though such a deal poses a significant conflict of interests
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Elon Musk denies reports that US threatened to shut off Starlink access in Ukraine
As US pushes for nation's critical minerals
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Elon Musk's xAI plans $80m wastewater treatment plant to service Memphis supercomputer
Will process 49.2m liters of dirty water per day
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Computing Research Association warns cutting 12% of US National Science Foundation will undermine IT leadership
Calls DOGE action shortsighted and foolish
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Elon Musk appears to target Iron Mountain Pennsylvania site, but CEO says DOGE represents an opportunity
Hopes to turn it into a large digitization contract
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Musk's xAI considering second data center, $5bn Dell server deal
Huge Nvidia GB200 contract to compete with Stargate
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Probationary employees fired across Department of Energy, impacting grid improvement work
Thousands thought to be laid off during an ongoing energy emergency
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Musk's $97bn bid for OpenAI complicates fundraising and Stargate plans
It doesn't need to be a real offer to have a real impact
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Tesla’s 50,000 GPU Cortex supercomputer went live in Q4 2024
The Nvidia H100 cluster is alive and kicking in Texas
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USAID chaos puts cloud and telco contracts at risk
Hundreds of millions of dollars of contracts up in the air
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Elon Musk claims Tesla is buying more training compute for humanoid robot, Optimus
"$500 billion of training compute in that situation will be quite a good deal”
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Apple and SpaceX bring Starlink support to the iPhone
Included in Apple's latest iOS update
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Trump confirms Microsoft is in talks to acquire TikTok
Competing against Oracle, MrBeast, and others
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Sam Altman hits back at Elon Musk's claims Stargate has no money
Senior White House official publicly undermines President Trump's $500bn announcement
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SpaceX provides Starlink terminals to areas impacted by Los Angeles fires
As mobile carriers also lend support to the affected areas
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xAI raises another $6bn, including from Nvidia and AMD
An early Christmas present for Musk
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T-Mobile opens registration for beta Starlink satellite service
No date given yet, but beta set to go live early next year
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Indonesia wants to host data centers for Elon Musk's xAI
After battery factory pitch failed, government advisor has a new idea
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SpaceX wins US contract to expand Ukraine's access to Starshield satellite network
Starshield is a more secure version of Starlink's satellite network
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xAI targets one million GPUs for Colossus supercomputer in Memphis
Massive expansion of data center planned
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Senator Ernst urges DOGE to cancel Biden's BEAD program
Ernst says it's time to "pull the plug" on BEAD
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OpenAI considered teaming up with Tesla to buy big chip company Cerebras in 2017
But discussions ultimately went nowhere
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Fury from campaigners as Elon Musk's xAI gets 150MW for Colossus supercomputer in Memphis
"We deserve clean air, not silent strangulation"
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xAI to double Colossus compute capacity, reveals cluster uses Nvidia Spectrum-X ethernet
“Soon to become a 200k H100/H200 training cluster in a single building,” Musk said
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Tesla claims 50k GPU cluster will be live by end of month
As capex looks to go past $11bn