SpaceXAI ran some data centers for months without backup cooling and power as Musk taps rocket leaders

SpaceXAI operated some of its rapidly built data centers for months without backup cooling and power systems, increasing the risk of outages, and Elon Musk has since brought in executives from SpaceX rocket and Starbase operations to help run the effort. The gap sits at the center of a broader trade-off: the company has stood up gigawatt-scale AI clusters far faster than a conventional data-center timeline, while critics and satellite analysis have questioned whether cooling, redundancy, and uptime have kept pace with installed chips.