{"id":989144,"date":"2026-02-02T07:55:14","date_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:25:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=989144"},"modified":"2026-02-02T08:08:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-02T02:38:56","slug":"spacex-seeks-fcc-nod-for-solar-powered-satellite-data-centres-for-ai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/02\/02\/spacex-seeks-fcc-nod-for-solar-powered-satellite-data-centres-for-ai\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX seeks FCC nod for solar-powered satellite data centres for AI"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of \u200done million satellites that will orbit Earth and harness the sun to power AI \u2060data centres, according to a filing at the Federal Communications Commission. <\/p>\n<p>The filing on Friday was posted a day after exclusively reported SpaceX and Musk&#8217;s xAI are in discussions to merge ahead of a blockbuster \u200cpublic offering planned \u200cthis year. A merger would give \u200cfresh momentum to SpaceX&#8217;s effort to launch data centres into orbit \u200cas Musk battles for supremacy in the rapidly escalating AI race against tech companies Google, Meta and OpenAI.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Elon Musk&#8217;s SpaceX wants to launch a constellation of \u200done million satellites that will orbit Earth and harness the sun to power AI \u2060data centres, according to a filing at the Federal Communications Commission. The filing on Friday was posted a day after exclusively reported SpaceX and Musk&#8217;s xAI are in discussions to merge ahead of a blockbuster \u200cpublic offering planned \u200cthis year. A merger would give \u200cfresh momentum to SpaceX&#8217;s effort to launch data centres into orbit \u200cas Musk battles for supremacy in the rapidly escalating AI race against tech companies Google, Meta and OpenAI.<\/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-989144","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\/989144","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=989144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/989144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=989144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=989144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=989144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}