Data centers are a “trivial problem” compared with what SpaceX’s rocket engineers work on every day, Musk said. A growing crop of “neocloud” startups are also racing to build the data centers and computing capacity needed to power artificial intelligence. In February, SpaceX acquired xAI, an AI company also owned by Musk, and has since poured billions into AI infrastructure. Rocket scientists aside, one of the big draws of SpaceX’s data center business is its stockpile of Nvidia GPU chips. While SpaceX has also discussed building specialized space-based data centers that can harvest energy directly from the sun, Musk focused on terrestrial data centers on Tuesday’s call.