Elon Musk is eyeing an acquisition of Mesh Optical Applied sciences, a startup based by three former SpaceX engineers final 12 months growing {hardware} for quick knowledge middle communications.
The potential acquisition, which was revealed in a Federal Trade Commission filing and first reported by Bloomberg, confirmed the company expedited its antitrust assessment.
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 maintain hundreds of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites interconnected.
The Mesh co-founders noticed a possibility to develop optical transceivers for terrestrial knowledge facilities, as light-based {hardware} is quicker and extra energy-efficient than conventional electrical-based techniques.
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 knowledge facilities, producing a considerable new income stream for the newly public firm. Buying Mesh might ultimately permit SpaceX to enhance the effectivity of its knowledge facilities, whether or not they’re positioned on Earth or, sooner or later, in area.
