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- On May 23 2026, SpaceX and xAI filed to buy $2.8 billion of fossil electricity for data centers, using natural-gas turbines.
- SpaceX allocated $131 million for 1,279 Cybertrucks while xAI allocated $697 million for Tesla Megapack batteries.
- Musk warned that AI compute could outpace the 40 gigawatt capacity while critics claim solar deployment may consume more energy than trucking panels and leave the option untapped despite SpaceX’s claim of space-based arrays delivering five times ground output.
