05-08-2026 19:55 via theregister.com

Elon pledges to give Nvidia a virtual monopoly over the stars

Nvidia commands about 85 percent of the datacenter GPU market today, and if Elon Musk has his way, the AI infrastructure giant will have a virtual monopoly over the stars. On Tuesday, Musk wrote on the social media network he owns that “SpaceX has committed to using Nvidia GPUs exclusively because they are the best.” The collab should surprise absolutely no one. It’s not like AMD or anyone else out there is making hardened versions of their GPUs for orbital datacenters. Why, yo
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