Defending the company's aggressive investment in AI, Musk argued that the engineering expertise required to design reusable rockets and satellites translates directly to building AI data centers, comparing the company's advantage in the market to "the New York Yankees going in and playing a Little League team." 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.