Hewlett Packard Enterprise Secures $1 Billion AI Server Deal For Elon Musk's X

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has struck a deal worth over $1 billion to provide Elon Musk's social media platform X with servers optimized for artificial intelligence work, Bloomberg News reported on Friday, citing people familiar with the matter.The agreement was reached late last year, the report said, adding that competitors Dell Technologies and Super Micro Computer had also bid to sell the equipment.Demand for computing to run AI workloads has led to a boom for makers of high-powered servers like HPE. Musk’s companies including Tesla Inc. and xAI have emerged as major customers for the hardware. A supercomputer project being built by xAI in Memphis has used a mix of Dell and Super Micro servers.Firms that Musk runs are known to share employees, technology and computing power. AI startup xAI’s main product, a chatbot called Grok, has primarily been available to paying users of X, the social network formerly known as Twitter. Get full access to Neural News Network at remunerationlabs.substack.com/subscribe