Elon Musk is eyeing an acquisition of Mesh Optical Applied sciences, a startup based by three former SpaceX engineers final yr growing {hardware} for quick information middle communications.
The potential acquisition, which was revealed in a Federal Commerce Fee submitting and first reported by Bloomberg, confirmed the company expedited its antitrust evaluate.
Mesh Optical got here out of stealth in February when it introduced that it raised a $50 million Collection A led by Thrive Capital.
Earlier than founding Mesh Optical, the startup’s co-founders, Travis Brashears, Cameron Ramos, and Serena Grown-Haeberli, developed the optical communication hyperlinks that hold hundreds of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites interconnected.
The Mesh co-founders noticed a possibility to develop optical transceivers for terrestrial information facilities, as light-based {hardware} is quicker and extra energy-efficient than conventional electrical-based programs.
SpaceX has not too long ago entered into agreements with Anthropic, Google, and the open-source AI developer Reflection AI to offer them with compute capability at its information facilities, producing a considerable new income stream for the newly public firm. Buying Mesh might finally enable SpaceX to enhance the effectivity of its information facilities, whether or not they’re situated on Earth or, sooner or later, in area.
