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SpaceX’s IPO filing reveals Musk’s clean energy contradiction. xAI burns gas while Tesla sells solar.

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xAI powers its data centres with unregulated gas turbines while SpaceX’s IPO pitches space-based solar. Tesla’s solar business is ignored.

The SpaceX IPO prospectus, filed on Wednesday, contains a vision for terawatt-scale space-based solar power. It also reveals, through what it does not say, that Elon Musk’s AI company xAI is running its data centres on unregulated natural gas turbines, with plans to buy $2.8 billion more. Tesla, the company Musk built on the promise of eliminating fossil fuels, barely features as a power supplier. The contradiction is now a matter of SEC record.

Tesla has released four Master Plans over the years. The through line has been consistent: electrification of the economy. In 2006, Musk described Tesla’s “overarching purpose” as helping “expedite the move from a mine-and-burn hydrocarbon economy towards a solar electric economy.” Just three years ago, Tesla’s Master Plan Part 3 outlined...

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'We are putting quantum inside the rack so customers can roll it in, plug it in': The world’s first rack-mounted quantum computer is here — and it runs at -459 degrees Fahrenheit from a standard wall socket

* Equal1 and Dell's RacQ is the world’s first rack-mounted quantum computer for enterprise use * It operates from a standard single-phase 1.6kW wall socket * The system uses a built-in close-cycle cryocooler, eliminating the need for external cryogenic plumbing Equal1 and Dell have come together to launch what