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A micron memory chip factory in upstate New York is wrangling with local groups who want legal assurances the project will benefit the community.

We'll dig into that on today's Marketplace Techbytes week in review.

Plus how YouTube plans to crack down on AI slop.

But first, it's shaping up to be a big year for very big IPOs.

Elon Musk is reportedly preparing to take SpaceX public at an anticipated valuation of around

$1.5 trillion. A.I. companies Anthropic and Open AI are also expected to follow suit this year.

Here to discuss all that is Peresh DeVay. He's a senior writer for Wired.

Elon kind of just wants to be first. We know that he has an ego. We know that he cares about

beating Sam Altman, beating Jeff Bezos, and those AI companies, you know, thinking about going public.

And so Elon could take XAI public, but it's not really prepared to do so.

And so that leaves SpaceX, has sort of the next Elon company that is in a good position now to potentially go public.

There was some reporting in the Wall Street Journal this week about one specific sort of

project that SpaceX may want the extra capital that comes from going public for. I'm not sure

how seriously to take this, but this idea of building

data centers in space. You know, I've seen reporting that this is actually, you know, could be

a good use case. You don't need to cool data centers in space. There's obviously a lot of space,

although it's kind of filling up with a lot of satellites.

But it does still seem kind of out there, or pretty extremely out there.

Yes, it's a serious science experiment, and it requires lots of money. And so raising $30 billion

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