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Elon Musk says SpaceX is "doing in-house casting" for blades and vanes
Elon Musk says SpaceX is "doing in-house casting" for blades and vanes, which can accelerate natural gas turbines "coming online by up to 18 months"
TL;DRSpaceX is manufacturing turbine parts in-house to speed up power plant deployment for AI data centers.
Why it matters: Vertical integration of critical infrastructure could give Musk's companies competitive advantage in AI compute race.
Elon Musk says SpaceX is “doing in-house casting” for blades and vanes, which can accelerate natural gas turbines “coming online by up to 18 months” — Elon Musk intends to bypass the power supply chain for AI data centers in a way others assumed was impossible, by making highly complex components himself.
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