{"id":1026836,"date":"2026-08-06T11:19:33","date_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:49:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1026836"},"modified":"2026-08-06T11:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-06T05:49:33","slug":"elon-musk-at-spacexs-first-earnings-call-says-data-centers-a-trivial-problem-compared-to-what-companys-rocket-engineers-work-on-every-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/08\/06\/elon-musk-at-spacexs-first-earnings-call-says-data-centers-a-trivial-problem-compared-to-what-companys-rocket-engineers-work-on-every-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Elon Musk at SpaceX&#8217;s first earnings call says data centers a &#8216;trivial problem&#8217; compared to what company\u2019s rocket engineers work on every day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has defended SpaceX&#8217;s growing investment in AI infrastructure. Speaking during the company&#8217;s first earnings call as a public company, Musk said building AI data centres is a &#8220;trivial problem&#8221; compared to the engineering challenges the company&#8217;s rocket teams solve every day. The remarks came after SpaceX spent nearly $16 billion on AI infrastructure during the second quarter.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining why he believes SpaceX can expand rapidly in AI computing, Musk said, &#8220;We&#8217;re taking a small amount of the expertise that we use for rockets and satellites, and applying that to scaling terrestrial data centres.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk has defended SpaceX&#8217;s growing investment in AI infrastructure. Speaking during the company&#8217;s first earnings call as a public company, Musk said building AI data centres is a &#8220;trivial problem&#8221; compared to the engineering challenges the company&#8217;s rocket teams solve every day. The remarks came after SpaceX spent nearly $16 billion on AI infrastructure during the second quarter. Explaining why he believes SpaceX can expand rapidly in AI computing, Musk said, &#8220;We&#8217;re taking a small amount of the expertise that we use for rockets and satellites, and applying that to scaling terrestrial data centres.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1026836","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026836","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\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1026836"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1026837,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1026836\/revisions\/1026837"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1026836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1026836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1026836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}