Musk’s faster path to more gas turbines comes with pollution problem

Elon Musk says he’s found a way to solve one of AI’s biggest bottlenecks by making a hard-to-manufacture turbine part himself.

On Saturday, Musk confirmed what a secret foundry SpaceX has been building in Bastrop, Texas, is for — an apparent response to a story that was already closing in on the details. Earlier in the day, The Information published a report citing job listings that explicitly mention a “blades and vanes foundry,” plus findings from Corey Trinetti, a due diligence specialist who authors detailed reviews of AI infrastructure sites in his newsletter and who’d reported that SpaceX had bought roughly 830 acres near its existing Starlink factory in Bastrop between March and June.

“SpaceX and Tesla are each building 100GW/year of solar production capacity as fast as possible,” Musk wrote on Xon Saturday, “but natural gas will still be needed to supplement and bootstrap solar for several years....

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