Jessica Mendoza

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This week, billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk announced some major news having to do with two of his companies.

Our colleague, Berber Jin, covers tech.

But Elon Musk does have a grand vision that marries AI and space.

And so he made the deal happen, seemingly at light speed.

Is this something any billionaire can do, or is this very much an Elon Musk thing?

Welcome to The Journal, our show about money, business, and power.

I'm Jessica Mendoza.

It's Friday, February 6th.

Coming up on the show, Elon Musk's AI rocket ship mega merger.

In a blog post announcing the merger, Musk explained his vision for his newly combined trillion-dollar mega-company.

Musk wrote that this new endeavor will, quote, extend the light of consciousness to the stars, enable the creation of colonies on Mars, and ensure, quote, humanity's multi-planetary future.

Musk also lays out what he says is the driving cause for combining SpaceX and XAI, data centers in space.

The idea is that AI data centers on Earth take up a lot of land and power.

It's a big drain.