Elon Musk is eyeing an acquisition of Mesh Optical Applied sciences, a startup based by three former SpaceX engineers final 12 months creating {hardware} for quick information heart communications.
The potential acquisition, which was revealed in a Federal Trade Commission filing and first reported by Bloomberg, confirmed the company expedited its antitrust evaluation.
Mesh Optical got here out of stealth in February when it introduced that it raised a $50 million Series 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 1000’s of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites interconnected.
The Mesh co-founders noticed a chance 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 lately entered into agreements with Anthropic, Google, and the open-source AI developer Reflection AI to supply them with compute capability at its information facilities, producing a considerable new income stream for the newly public firm. Buying Mesh may ultimately permit SpaceX to enhance the effectivity of its information facilities, whether or not they’re situated on Earth or, sooner or later, in area.
