Rocket manufacturer Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (NASDAQ:SPCX) is expanding beyond aerospace and into a business dominated by Big Tech, as the company explores leasing AI computing power to the U.S. government.
According to The Wall Street Journal, Elon Musk‘s SpaceX and the Pentagon are discussing a leasing agreement under which the company would rent computing capacity from its data centers, allowing military and intelligence agencies to run AI models on SpaceX’s infrastructure.