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terrestrial

[tuh-res-tree-uhl] / təˈrɛs tri əl /


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He merged his xAI artificial intelligence company into SpaceX this year, with the combined entity recently announcing it was leasing computer power to rivals Anthropic and Google at two terrestrial data centers it has constructed.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 23, 2026

Barriers to entry in that market are “functionally insurmountable within the rating horizon, alongside rapidly scaling recurring revenue from connectivity and terrestrial AI compute,” Fitch said.

From The Wall Street Journal • Jun. 18, 2026

SpaceX’s terrestrial data centers, which were owned by xAI before it was merged with SpaceX in February, are renting out computing space to Anthropic and Google for billions of dollars a month.

From Barron's • Jun. 15, 2026

According to Marek, millipedes were among the early pioneers of life on land, helping recycle nutrients by feeding on decaying organic material in some of the first terrestrial ecosystems.

From Science Daily • Jun. 14, 2026

With the Earth the center of the Universe, with creation pivoted about terrestrial events, with the heavens imagined constructed on utterly unearthly principles, there was little motivation for astronomical observations.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan




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