Lauren Grush

So there is some sense to be made in combining the companies as they already work so closely together already.

Right.

So obviously, a lot of this is being driven by Elon's latest grand vision of putting AI data centers into space.

There's obviously a lot of pros that have been talked about in terms of doing so.

Depending on where you put them, there's constant access to solar energy because of where you put them in orbit.

There's also a lot of space in space, and these data centers do take up

quite a lot of real estate here on Earth, and that can also come with a regulatory burden in order to get the right permits and things to do so.

So there's a lot of benefits to moving to space, but there's also massive engineering challenges in order to make it work.

For instance, that solar power we're talking about, we're going to need massive solar panels in order to run the kinds of data center sizes that Elon's been talking about.

So that is going to be a challenge that they're going to have to work through.

You're going to have to put radiators on these vehicles in order to cool them down.

A lot of the infrastructure around data centers here on Earth, they need massive cooling requirements, and that doesn't change for space because you're in a vacuum and you have to use those radiators.

There's a lot of work to be done.

And it all relies on Starship, which is SpaceX's next generation vehicle.

And that vehicle isn't quite ready for prime time yet either.

So there's a lot to keep an eye on in order for this grand vision to play out and obviously

we won't be keeping an eye on it ourselves.