Elon Musk expects Mesh Optical Technologies, a startup founded last year by three former SpaceX engineers, to develop hardware for high-speed data center communications.
A potential trade that has been discovered Federal Trade Commission filing and first Bloomberg reported on thisconfirmed that the agency is expediting its antitrust investigation.
Mesh Optical came out of stealth in February $50 million Series A Managed by Thrive Capital.
Before founding Mesh Optical, startup co-founders Travis Brashears, Cameron Ramos, and Serena Grown-Haeberli developed the optical communications links that keep thousands of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites connected.
The Mesh co-founders saw an opportunity to develop optical transmissions for terrestrial data centers because light-based hardware is faster and more energy-efficient than traditional electricity-based systems.
SpaceX recently struck deals with Anthropic, Google and open-source artificial intelligence developer Reflection AI to provide computing capacity in its data centers, creating a significant new revenue stream for the newly public company. The acquisition of Mesh could allow SpaceX to improve the efficiency of its data centers, whether they are located on Earth or, in the future, in space.
