Meghan McCarty Carino

I'm Megan McCarty Carino.

A micron memory chip factory in upstate New York is wrangling with local groups who want legal assurances the project will benefit the community.

We'll dig into that on today's Marketplace Tech Bytes Week in Review.

Plus, how YouTube plans to crack down on AI slop.

But first, it's shaping up to be a big year for very big IPOs.

Elon Musk is reportedly preparing to take SpaceX public at an anticipated valuation of around $1.5 trillion.

AI companies Anthropic and OpenAI are also expected to follow suit this year.

Here to discuss all that is Paresh Devay.

He's a senior writer for Wired.

There was some reporting in the Wall Street Journal this week about one specific sort of project that SpaceX may want the extra capital that comes from going public for.

I'm not sure how seriously to take this, but this idea of building data centers in space, you know, I've seen reporting that this is actually, you know, could be a good use case.

You don't need to

cool data centers in space.

There's obviously a lot of space, although it's kind of filling up with a lot of satellites.

But it does still seem kind of out there or pretty extremely out there.

So as you noted, there is this kind of competition between Elon Musk and Sam Altman, his former colleague at OpenAI.

OpenAI has kind of made some moves to go public and also anthropic.

These are all very mature companies with very big balance sheets, not necessarily big profits yet, but certainly would energize markets, I guess.

All right.

Well, now we want to turn to something that you've been reporting on for Wired, Paresh, about a megafab facility for micron technology that's planned in Clay, New York.