SpaceX officially closes its Cursor acquisition — SkimNews
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- Cursor announced on its blog that SpaceX has officially closed the acquisition of the AI coding startup.
- The deal originated in April as a collaboration with an option for SpaceX to buy Cursor for $60 billion.
- Two months later, SpaceX confirmed it was moving forward with the acquisition as it became a public company.
- Cursor will gain "access to the largest fleet of GPUs in the world" via SpaceX's computing infrastructure.
- SpaceX already rents that infrastructure to customers including Anthropic and Google.
- SpaceX also faces a lawsuit over pollution from its data center gas turbines.
- Cursor quoted SpaceX as "building the computing capacity needed to scale intelligence far beyond what exists today."
Why it matters: Cursor gets locked-in access to SpaceX's GPU fleet, which SpaceX has been renting to AI labs like Anthropic and Google. SpaceX gains an AI coding product that turns its massive compute buildout into a developer-facing tool, while inheriting a pollution lawsuit over the data centers powering it all.
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