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Timeline · February 2, 2026

What Elon Musk said on February 2, 2026

In a memo reported on the day SpaceX announced the xAI acquisition, Musk was said to describe the merger as largely about building space-based data centers, arguing ground data centers cannot meet AI's electricity demand.

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