{"id":1022184,"date":"2026-07-20T07:54:20","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:24:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1022184"},"modified":"2026-07-20T08:09:13","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T02:39:13","slug":"elon-musks-spacex-in-talks-to-supply-the-pentagon-with-computing-power-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/07\/20\/elon-musks-spacex-in-talks-to-supply-the-pentagon-with-computing-power-report\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX in talks to supply the Pentagon with computing power: Report"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s \u200bSpaceX is in talks to provide the U.S. \u200bDepartment of Defense with access to data center capacity worth billions of dollars to run AI models, the Wall Street Journal reported \u200con Friday, \u2060citing \u2060people familiar with the matter. <\/p>\n<p>Such an agreement would extend the Pentagon&#8217;s \u200bexisting relationship with SpaceX, a key partner for rocket launches and satellite-based communications \u200band missile tracking. <\/p>\n<p>According to the report, SpaceX employees have discussed plans to compete more directly with neocloud firms such as CoreWeave by selling computing capacity \u2060to AI \u200ccustomers at lower prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s \u200bSpaceX is in talks to provide the U.S. \u200bDepartment of Defense with access to data center capacity worth billions of dollars to run AI models, the Wall Street Journal reported \u200con Friday, \u2060citing \u2060people familiar with the matter. Such an agreement would extend the Pentagon&#8217;s \u200bexisting relationship with SpaceX, a key partner for rocket launches and satellite-based communications \u200band missile tracking. According to the report, SpaceX employees have discussed plans to compete more directly with neocloud firms such as CoreWeave by selling computing capacity \u2060to AI \u200ccustomers at lower prices.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1022184","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022184","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1022184"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022184\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1022204,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1022184\/revisions\/1022204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1022184"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1022184"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1022184"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}