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Musk's SpaceX in talks to supply the Pentagon with computing power, WSJ reports | Reuters

SpaceX is in talks to supply the US Department of Defense with data centre capacity to run AI models worth billions of dollars, competing directly with neocloud firms like CoreWeave by offering lower-cost computing services.

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The Wire takeaway

If you sell compute to the US government or compete with CoreWeave on price, SpaceX just entered your market with scale and a Pentagon customer in sight. The neocloud firms that priced themselves as premium will now face pressure on margin or lose contracts.

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Topics: AI Infrastructure · Cloud Infrastructure · defense-compute · ai-infrastructure · market-entry · price-competition · dod-procurement

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