According to Sawyer Merritt on Twitter, SpaceX has officially acquired xAI, merging to form an innovation powerhouse focused on space-based AI data centers, satellite internet, and planetary expansion. Elon Musk's statement highlights that traditional Earth-bound data centers limit AI scalability due to power and cooling constraints. The new entity aims to launch a constellation of millions of orbital data centers, directly harnessing solar energy and delivering up to 100 gigawatts of AI compute capacity annually. This approach is expected to dramatically lower costs for AI compute within 2-3 years, driving advances in AI model training and global connectivity. Musk projects that these developments will enable self-growing lunar bases, Mars colonization, and eventual civilization-scale expansion, as reported by Sawyer Merritt.