The Boston Globe

Energy, water use, and pollution by data centers is expected to double in four years

WASHINGTON — The environmental footprint of data centers already rivals some of the world’s largest countries, according to a United Nations University report, which also predicts their water and ...

NASA’s X-59 “frankenjet” tests supersonic flight without the sonic boom

More than two decades since the Concorde supersonic airliner last took to the skies, NASA has been flying an experimental ...
Engadget

Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month to use xAI's data centers

Google has just signed a $30 billion AI deal with SpaceX, which owns Elon Musk's xAI. According to a SpaceX filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission, it will receive $920 million a month ...
Inc

The Most Powerful Management Tool Is Free—and Most Leaders Still Don’t Use It

Gallup finds 80 percent of employees globally are disengaged, at an annual cost of $8.8 trillion in productivity. Many reasons explain why people tune out others but often it’s unintentional and ...
Smithsonian Magazine

In a First, NASA’s Experimental X-59 Plane Flew Faster Than the Speed of Sound, Setting the Stage for ‘Quiet’ Supersonic Aircraft

On June 5, NASA’s experimental X-59 plane went supersonic for the first time. The aircraft zoomed through the sky at a top speed of about 713 miles per hour, or Mach 1.1, and an altitude of 43,400 ...
Bloomberg L.P.

Elon Musk Shows Detailed Design of AI Data Center Satellite

Elon Musk unveiled a more detailed look at an initial version of an AI data center satellite SpaceX plans to build, providing fresh insight into the ambitious project driving the company’s highly ...
The New York Times

How Banks Are Using SpaceX to Woo the Superrich

Wall Street is giving its richest clients velvet rope access to this week’s public listing of SpaceX, reflecting the growing importance of the wealth management business. By Lauren Hirsch On the 51st ...
Wired

People Living Near xAI’s Dirty Data Centers Are Pissed About the SpaceX IPO

Elon Musk is set to make hundreds of billions even as communities in Mississippi and Tennessee are fighting to stop the gas turbines powering xAI's supercomputers. A public offering will allow SpaceX ...
Reuters

Ahead of SpaceX IPO, Musk says AI satellites will use mostly existing technology

Musk says AI satellites use existing Starlink V3 technology, not a major engineering leap AI satellite factory in Texas expected to reach meaningful output by end of next year, SpaceX says First AI ...
The Verge

Here’s the first SpaceX AI data center.

“What we’re showing here is kind of a draft version of the version one of the SpaceX AI satellite,” said Elon Musk at the reveal on Monday. “It’s actually much simpler than a Starlink satellite.” The ...
The Texas Tribune

An unprecedented data center boom means new challenges for Texas. Find out what’s planned near you.

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CNBC

New SpaceX millionaires are reinventing the business of managing large wealth

The SpaceX IPO is minting thousands of new millionaires, some of whom have joined forces to negotiate a wealth management plan at lower fees. Private banks, wire houses, trust companies and other ...