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SpaceX Is Spending $2.8 Billion to Buy Gas Turbines for Its AI Data Centers

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May 20, 2026 7:30 PM

The investment comes as Musk’s AI unit faces complaints about the carbon-emitting units and looks to become a big player in cloud computing.

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Elon Musk’s SpaceX committed to spending over $2.8 billion in recent months to buy gas turbines to power data centers for its artificial intelligence unit, the company revealed in a regulatory filing on Wednesday.

The relatively large investment shows that Musk is continuing to double down on gas turbines, even after SpaceX’s use of them prompted public complaints, a lawsuit, and regulatory inquiries into whether the company may be polluting the air with carbon emissions and dodging environmental requirements.

A shortage of electricity is the leading constraint on an otherwise roaring data center boom happening across the US. Portable gas turbines—generators that can run without drawing power from the grid—have been viewed as quick and temporary...

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America's top cyber-defense agency left a GitHub repo open with passwords, keys, tokens – and incredibly obvious filenames

I wonder what's in 'external-secret-repo-creds.yaml' and 'AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv'? The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) left open a GitHub repository named “Private-CISA” containing plain-text passwords, private keys, tokens, and secrets – with obvious file names like “external-secret-repo-creds.yaml” and “AWS-Workspace-Firefox-Passwords.csv” – for six
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SpaceX S-1: xAI had a $6.4B operating loss on $3.2B in revenue in 2025; Grok and X had 550M MAUs combined as of March 2026, and 117M used Grok's AI features

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