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Water access is now a risk factor in SpaceX’s IPO
Key takeaways
- Space X has added new language to its IPO filing that warns prospective investors about the company s access to a potentially scarce resource: water.
- The addition comes amid an ever-evolving debate about how much water data centers use, and whether that usage is contributing to localized droughts that are being made worse by climate change.
- Deep in the risk factors section of SpaceX s IPO filing, the company added language about water to a section about the challenges of scaling AI infrastructure.
Why this matters: a development in AI with implications for how people work, create, and decide.
Space X has added new language to its IPO filing that warns prospective investors about the company s access to a potentially scarce resource: water.
The company, which now includes Elon Musk s AI play, x AI, wrote in an amended version of the filing on Monday that access to water required to cool its data centers is just as important as Space X s ability to secure power, processors, and other critical resources.
The addition comes amid an ever-evolving debate about how much water data centers use, and whether that usage is contributing to localized droughts that are being made worse by climate change.
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