Musk says SpaceX can cut turbine waits 18 months

Elon Musk says SpaceX’s new Bastrop foundry can bring natural-gas turbines online up to 18 months sooner by casting blades and vanes in-house, a claim reported in TechCrunch’s account of the turbine bottleneck. The move matters beyond xAI: with four industrial-scale blade casters already tapped out and Nvidia’s data-center sales now approaching hyperscaler-capex scale, builders should treat power equipment—not only GPUs—as a capacity and permitting risk.