# Elon Musk Has Spent More Than $445 Million on the US Midterms

An episode of [Big Take, Midterms 2026](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/podcast/1724754756), 21 Oct 2026, 18 min.

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Amid the news that Elon Musk wants to merge Tesla and SpaceX, he has given $445 million to political races in the US midterms. That makes him one of the biggest-ever contributors in US history. On today’s Big Take podcast, host David Gura talks to Dana Hull, who covers Musk, and campaign finance reporter Bill Allison, about the impact that money could have on some of the closest races, like the Texas Senate race. Read more: Musk Giving Tops $445 Million in Midterm Election Push for GOP Musk Pours $158 Million Into GOP Super PAC for Texas Senate Race SpaceX, Tesla Boards Study Possible $3.5 Trillion Merger We have a special Bloomberg subscription offer for podcast listeners at Bloomberg.com/podcastoffer. Host: David Gura; Guests: Dana Hull, Bill Allison; Produced by Julia Press, David Fox, Julia Weaver; Edited by Naomi Shavin; Engineering by Sean Carter. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

## Transcript

[0:02] Speaker 1: Bloomberg Audio Studios.
[0:04] Speaker 2: Podcasts. Radio.
[0:06] Speaker 3: News.
[0:09] Speaker 1: We remember this moment when our colleague Michelle Hussain was
[0:11] Speaker 1: sitting down with Elon Musk and he said effectively, I'm out.
[0:14] Speaker 1: I'm not going to do this anymore. I'm going to
[0:16] Speaker 1: do a lot less in the future. And why is that?
[0:22] Speaker 2: I think I've done enough.
[0:23] Speaker 1: Was there any pause or diminution in the amount of
[0:27] Speaker 1: political spending that we saw from Elon Musk after he
[0:30] Speaker 1: said that?
[0:30] Speaker 2: I think like we saw in 2024, Elon Musk is
[0:33] Speaker 2: the October surprise. The amount of money that he is
[0:37] Speaker 2: showering on the campaign at this stage in the game
[0:41] Speaker 2: and the amount of advertising that that can buy can
[0:43] Speaker 2: really shift the contours of a race, especially in a
[0:46] Speaker 2: state like Texas.
[0:49] Speaker 1: I'm David Gurra, and this is The Big Take from
[0:51] Speaker 1: Bloomberg News. Today on the show, the latest FEC filings
[0:54] Speaker 1: are in. and Elon Musk has spent roughly $ 369 million
[0:59] Speaker 1: on the U.S. midterms to try to help the Republican Party.
[1:03] Speaker 1: Reporters Dana Hull and Bill Allison join me to explain
[1:06] Speaker 1: what Musk stands to gain in the midterms and what
[1:09] Speaker 1: he could lose. So let's start by going through the
[1:17] Speaker 1: numbers in this election cycle, looking at the latest Federal
[1:20] Speaker 1: Election Commission filings. Elon Musk gave $ 158 million to the
[1:25] Speaker 1: GOP's main super PAC, backing Senate candidates. But that is
[1:28] Speaker 1: not even half of what Musk spent this cycle, which
[1:30] Speaker 1: totals more than $ 369 million. He's transferred around $ 89 million
[1:35] Speaker 1: to his own super PAC, America PAC. Break this down
[1:38] Speaker 1: for us, Bill. How much has Elon Musk spent this
[1:42] Speaker 1: cycle compared to what he spent during the last election cycle?
[1:45] Speaker 3: The last election cycle, I mean, he started spending really
[1:48] Speaker 3: late in October. And he put in about $ 290 million
[1:52] Speaker 3: to elect Donald Trump and other Republicans. Most of that
[1:55] Speaker 3: was focused on Trump. There was about $ 18 million that
[1:58] Speaker 3: went to House candidates. So he's way beyond what he
[2:02] Speaker 3: did in 2024. I mean, he was very active in 2025.
[2:07] Speaker 3: He got involved in the Wisconsin Supreme Court race. He
[2:10] Speaker 3: gave money to MAGA Inc., which is Donald Trump's super PAC.
[2:14] Speaker 3: He gave about $ 10 million to both the Senate Leadership
[2:16] Speaker 3: Fund and the Congressional Leadership Fund, which are the super
[2:19] Speaker 3: PACs that back House and Senate candidates for Republicans. But
[2:23] Speaker 3: for the most part, he stayed on the sidelines really
[2:25] Speaker 3: until September.
[2:27] Speaker 1: Based on the latest Federal Election Commission filings, has anything
[2:30] Speaker 1: changed about his approach as we get closer and closer
[2:33] Speaker 1: to November 3rd? We're like two weeks away now. Has
[2:36] Speaker 1: there been an uptick in recent days?
[2:38] Speaker 3: I mean, one of the things that's different is in 2024,
[2:40] Speaker 3: he really managed his own money. He gave it to
[2:44] Speaker 3: his own super PAC. He had his own political operation,
[2:46] Speaker 3: and that was the thrust of what he was doing.
[2:49] Speaker 3: This time, you know, he's given to the Senate leadership funds.
[2:51] Speaker 3: He's kind of outsourced a lot of that, which in turn,
[2:54] Speaker 3: I mean, they put almost all of that money into Texas.
[2:56] Speaker 3: So he's still probably controlling where the money goes, but
[2:58] Speaker 3: a lot of it, you know, the biggest chunk of
[3:00] Speaker 3: his giving has kind of been outsourced to other political
[3:04] Speaker 3: and professional types.
[3:05] Speaker 2: I think the other real contrast between the 2024 election
[3:08] Speaker 2: cycle and now is that Trump is not on the
[3:10] Speaker 2: ballot and Musk is not on the trail. So if
[3:13] Speaker 2: you'll recall in October. 2024, Musk was really the October surprise.
[3:18] Speaker 2: He barnstormed across Pennsylvania. He was handing out million dollar
[3:23] Speaker 2: checks to, you know, handpicked, quote unquote, voters. This time,
[3:27] Speaker 2: he's kind of like hunkered down, you know, supposedly focused
[3:30] Speaker 2: on his businesses, like his money is doing the talking
[3:33] Speaker 2: and his megaphone on X. But he himself is not
[3:37] Speaker 2: physically on the campaign trail. And that's a big shift
[3:39] Speaker 2: from 2024.
[3:40] Speaker 1: Let's talk Texas. You brought it up, Bill. Elon Musk
[3:43] Speaker 1: lives in Texas now. We've heard him say a number
[3:45] Speaker 1: of times how much better he believes the Lone Star
[3:48] Speaker 1: State is for business than California, where he lived previously.
[3:52] Speaker 1: We've seen him expand his business footprint in Texas in
[3:55] Speaker 1: recent years. And this Senate race there is more competitive
[3:58] Speaker 1: than I think a lot of people thought it would
[3:59] Speaker 1: have been going into this election cycle. Dana, can you
[4:02] Speaker 1: walk us through what Elon Musk has at stake here
[4:05] Speaker 1: in Texas, both at the state and the federal level?
[4:07] Speaker 2: Sure. So Elon Musk moved to Texas in December 2020
[4:11] Speaker 2: during the pandemic. And since then, his companies have just
[4:14] Speaker 2: grown by leaps and bounds. And you have to kind
[4:16] Speaker 2: of take each one separately. So SpaceX is building this
[4:21] Speaker 2: massive rocket factory where they build the Starship rocket down
[4:24] Speaker 2: in Boca Chica near the Mexican border. Tesla has its
[4:29] Speaker 2: Gigafactory Texas there in Austin where they build the Model
[4:32] Speaker 2: Y and the CyberCab. Both companies are jointly building this
[4:37] Speaker 2: new chip factory in Grimes County, Texas, which is sort
[4:40] Speaker 2: of on the outskirts of Houston that is key to
[4:43] Speaker 2: Musk's ambitions to make the combined companies an AI company.
[4:47] Speaker 2: And they have thousands of employees. And I think what
[4:50] Speaker 2: we're seeing is that besides being a business leader in
[4:54] Speaker 2: the state, he really wants to be a political leader.
[4:56] Speaker 2: He has been very close to Attorney General Ken Paxton
[4:59] Speaker 2: and to Governor Greg Abbott and He has said quite
[5:02] Speaker 2: publicly over the past couple of weeks that like the
[5:04] Speaker 2: future of the Senate, you know, it's all about Texas.
[5:07] Speaker 1: Dana, has he talked openly about what he hopes this
[5:10] Speaker 1: giving is going to achieve? So you're mentioning it's raising
[5:13] Speaker 1: his political profile in the state of Texas. Has he
[5:15] Speaker 1: talked about what he hopes a victory by, say, Ken
[5:18] Speaker 1: Paxton over James Tallarico would mean for him for Elon Musk?
[5:23] Speaker 2: Not really. I mean, he hasn't he hasn't been that specific.
[5:26] Speaker 2: But I think if you look at his X feed,
[5:28] Speaker 2: both Musk himself and America PAC have been attacking Tallarico
[5:31] Speaker 2: over and over again. And Tallarico, in turn, is increasingly
[5:35] Speaker 2: talking about Musk on the campaign trail. You know, at
[5:37] Speaker 2: a rally, I think earlier this week, he said, you know,
[5:41] Speaker 2: Elon Musk is trying to buy the Senate seat in Texas.
[5:44] Speaker 2: He wants our land. He wants our water. And he
[5:46] Speaker 2: wants his own personal U.S. senator. He's trying to buy
[5:49] Speaker 2: Texas on November 3rd, will deliver a clear message to
[5:52] Speaker 2: the world's first trillionaire. Texas is not for sale. And
[5:56] Speaker 2: I think, you know, for Musk, he wants to merge
[5:59] Speaker 2: his two companies. And ideally, that would happen before Trump
[6:02] Speaker 2: leaves office. And so if Democrats win the House and
[6:06] Speaker 2: flip the Senate, it's just going to be a whole
[6:08] Speaker 2: different ballgame in Washington in terms of political power on
[6:11] Speaker 2: Capitol Hill.
[6:11] Speaker 3: You know, if you look at the way that the
[6:14] Speaker 3: media war has played out and the air wars in Texas,
[6:17] Speaker 3: James Tallarico, he's raised like $ 134 million. He's been able
[6:21] Speaker 3: to be on the air nonstop from the time of
[6:24] Speaker 3: the Senate runoff when Paxton was the nominee all the
[6:28] Speaker 3: way through to the present. And Paxton didn't start running
[6:32] Speaker 3: broadcast ads until September 15th. So that's a long time
[6:37] Speaker 3: without being on the airwaves. And if you look at
[6:41] Speaker 3: what Musk has done, and Texas PAC is the entity
[6:44] Speaker 3: that's actually spending the money, they have boosted the amount
[6:48] Speaker 3: of advertising so that they have more ads on the
[6:50] Speaker 3: air than Tallarico does right now, which is like a
[6:52] Speaker 3: major flip in terms of how this is playing out.
[6:56] Speaker 3: So that's really what Musk's money has bought in Texas.
[7:00] Speaker 3: He's kind of leveled the playing field and even given
[7:02] Speaker 3: Paxton a little bit of an advantage when it comes
[7:04] Speaker 3: to advertising.
[7:05] Speaker 1: Bill, let's pull back and look at the whole map.
[7:09] Speaker 1: What are the other races in which Elon Musk is
[7:11] Speaker 1: interested and the races to which he's donated money?
[7:14] Speaker 3: So America PAC has been spending, you know, its biggest
[7:17] Speaker 3: race is Texas. It's also spent in Michigan, Ohio. You know,
[7:22] Speaker 3: the Senate battlegrounds are the places where it's really putting
[7:24] Speaker 3: money in. And in a sense, you know, I think that,
[7:27] Speaker 3: you know, most observers think that and have thought for
[7:29] Speaker 3: a long time that Democrats were likely to retake the House.
[7:32] Speaker 3: The party out of power, out of the White House
[7:35] Speaker 3: always picks up or almost always picks up House seats.
[7:38] Speaker 3: You don't have a great economy right now. You have
[7:41] Speaker 3: a president with low approval ratings. That's kind of like
[7:44] Speaker 3: you know, tailor-made for the House majority flipping to Democrats.
[7:48] Speaker 3: And what Republicans are trying to do is create this
[7:50] Speaker 3: sort of firewall. And if they lose the Senate, it's
[7:53] Speaker 3: going to be much harder to get judges confirmed. It's
[7:55] Speaker 3: going to be harder to get administration officials confirmed that
[7:58] Speaker 3: need Senate confirmation. But although America PAC is, you know,
[8:02] Speaker 3: interested or has been spending in some House races, I
[8:04] Speaker 3: don't know if that'll continue. A lot of the, you know,
[8:08] Speaker 3: there've been cutbacks in a lot of House races by
[8:10] Speaker 3: the Congressional Leadership Fund. or shifting money around. And, you know,
[8:15] Speaker 3: Musk may decide that, you know, that the Senate is
[8:17] Speaker 3: a better gamble than putting more money into the House races.
[8:21] Speaker 1: When you look at the messaging from America PAC, from
[8:23] Speaker 1: Elon Musk's super PAC, how would you synthesize what he's
[8:26] Speaker 1: saying about politics, sort of what issues he's promoting, what
[8:29] Speaker 1: his call to action is?
[8:30] Speaker 2: I mean, Musk sees everything as like an existential crisis.
[8:34] Speaker 2: He thinks the future of America is at stake. He
[8:37] Speaker 2: is very aligned with Trump on issues of immigration issues. And,
[8:42] Speaker 2: you know, border policy and culture wars. I mean, a
[8:45] Speaker 2: lot of the ads that America PAC has been running
[8:47] Speaker 2: have been very focused on transgender issues. But it's a
[8:50] Speaker 2: bit out of step with what the electorate is worried about.
[8:53] Speaker 2: I mean, right now in the United States, you know,
[8:57] Speaker 2: millions of Americans are struggling with day to day issues
[9:01] Speaker 2: like affordable health care, the price of gas, the price
[9:04] Speaker 2: of diesel, the price of food. buying a house, mortgage
[9:08] Speaker 2: rates through the roof, and their neighbors being kidnapped by
[9:12] Speaker 2: an ICE detention center. So the messaging has been a
[9:16] Speaker 2: little out of line. And I think we're in a cycle,
[9:20] Speaker 2: an election cycle, where there's anti-billionaire sentiment, for sure.
[9:23] Speaker 1: Bill, you've been doing this a long time, tracking political spending,
[9:27] Speaker 1: campaign spending. And I just want to note Michael Bloomberg,
[9:29] Speaker 1: the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg LP, which is
[9:32] Speaker 1: the parent of Bloomberg News, contributed about $ 80 million in
[9:36] Speaker 1: September and October to help Democrats in the midterms. How
[9:39] Speaker 1: does Elon Musk compare to other political donors?
[9:42] Speaker 3: I think he's somewhat comparable to, but obviously it's a
[9:46] Speaker 3: lot more money, but he's somewhat comparable to somebody like
[9:48] Speaker 3: George Soros, who It's a long time ago, but in 2004,
[9:53] Speaker 3: when George W. Bush was running for leader election, George
[9:56] Speaker 3: Soros actually went out and gave lectures. I mean, they
[9:58] Speaker 3: weren't these you know, kind of rallies that Elon Musk
[10:00] Speaker 3: went to. But, you know, he tried to persuade people
[10:04] Speaker 3: and he was very much involved and put an awful
[10:06] Speaker 3: lot of money into that election. And he's remained a
[10:08] Speaker 3: very active donor over the years. Musk has taken it
[10:12] Speaker 3: to a different level. I mean, it's just it's a
[10:14] Speaker 3: tremendous amount of money that he's putting in. Ever since
[10:17] Speaker 3: Citizens United, we've seen like tons and tons of money
[10:19] Speaker 3: flowing into these super PACs. And I mean, the other
[10:23] Speaker 3: comparison may be Sheldon Adelson and his wife, Miriam Adelson,
[10:27] Speaker 3: who in 2020 put about $ 50 million in late. But again,
[10:31] Speaker 3: that's like a drop in the bucket compared to what
[10:34] Speaker 3: Elon Musk is doing.
[10:37] Speaker 1: After the break, Dana and I dig into what's at
[10:39] Speaker 1: stake for Elon Musk and his business empire in the midterms. Dan,
[10:51] Speaker 1: I want to talk about this moment in which Elon
[10:54] Speaker 1: Musk is giving so much money to political candidates, particularly
[10:58] Speaker 1: about what's at stake for Elon Musk and his businesses
[11:00] Speaker 1: in this midterm cycle. All of this is happening at
[11:03] Speaker 1: a time when his companies have huge government contracts. Starlink
[11:07] Speaker 1: is involved in the war in Ukraine. He is pushing
[11:10] Speaker 1: his businesses to stay competitive with other AI companies. And
[11:14] Speaker 1: just this week, we heard him float again the possibility
[11:16] Speaker 1: of this merger between one of his companies, SpaceX, and Tesla,
[11:20] Speaker 1: another company. That would be the biggest corporate merger ever
[11:23] Speaker 1: if it were to go through. So let's take a
[11:25] Speaker 1: step back here and just look at some of the
[11:27] Speaker 1: considerations Musk may be weighing as he considers his involvement
[11:30] Speaker 1: in the midterms. And we can start with that merger,
[11:32] Speaker 1: with that proposed Tesla-SpaceX merger. Of course, this would be
[11:36] Speaker 1: subject to the agreement of those companies' boards. and regulatory agencies' approval.
[11:41] Speaker 1: How would Republican control of Congress impact the likelihood of
[11:44] Speaker 1: this merger going through? What might it mean for any
[11:46] Speaker 1: antitrust concerns that might come up as a result?
[11:48] Speaker 2: So what's wild about this week is that Elon Musk
[11:51] Speaker 2: is the CEO of both Tesla and SpaceX, and he
[11:53] Speaker 2: has back-to-back earnings calls. So on Tuesday, there was the
[11:57] Speaker 2: SpaceX earnings call. He was asked if the companies are
[12:00] Speaker 2: taking steps towards a merger, and he acknowledge what many
[12:04] Speaker 2: of us have expected, which is that there are special
[12:07] Speaker 2: committees on both boards that are exploring the idea. You know,
[12:10] Speaker 2: there's not like a deal or an offer yet, but
[12:13] Speaker 2: they are beginning to explore this idea of merging, which
[12:17] Speaker 2: would be like the biggest M & A deal of
[12:18] Speaker 2: all time. And I think Musk would like to get
[12:22] Speaker 2: this done quickly while Trump is still in office, because
[12:25] Speaker 2: it does raise antitrust concerns. And it just raises geopolitical concerns.
[12:29] Speaker 2: I mean, you have a lot of members of Congress
[12:31] Speaker 2: very upset about the role of Starlink in Ukraine and
[12:34] Speaker 2: how Musk basically has all of this geopolitical power. There's
[12:38] Speaker 2: the whole issue of Tesla having a factory in China.
[12:40] Speaker 2: And what does that mean? You know, Musk would love
[12:43] Speaker 2: to get this deal done while Trump is still in
[12:46] Speaker 2: office for any number of reasons, not least of which
[12:49] Speaker 2: is his own pay package, which is also sort of
[12:51] Speaker 2: part of what's at stake here. But You know, he's
[12:55] Speaker 2: a man in a hurry. He hates what he sees
[12:57] Speaker 2: as sort of cumbersome regulations. And obviously, if the Republicans
[13:01] Speaker 2: are still in control of the House and the Senate
[13:03] Speaker 2: and the executive branch, it would move much faster.
[13:06] Speaker 1: I want to ask you about Starlink because it's been
[13:09] Speaker 1: in the news so much in recent days. This is
[13:11] Speaker 1: a technology that gives Elon Musk a lot of global power,
[13:14] Speaker 1: a lot of global influence, particularly in Ukraine, as that
[13:17] Speaker 1: conflict continues. And President Zelensky has accused the Trump administration
[13:22] Speaker 1: of pressuring Ukraine to yield to Russia at various points.
[13:25] Speaker 1: We've got the Wall Street Journal reporting that Musk himself
[13:27] Speaker 1: was behind a slowdown in Starlink speeds that hindered Ukraine's
[13:31] Speaker 1: ability to operate offensive interceptor drones last week. I should
[13:34] Speaker 1: say Musk denied responsibility. What do we know, Dana, about
[13:38] Speaker 1: any efforts from Musk to align Starlink with Trump administration priorities?
[13:43] Speaker 2: Yeah, there's been a little bit of like, it wasn't me,
[13:45] Speaker 2: it wasn't him, but it has been an ongoing issue
[13:48] Speaker 2: that So many governments around the world rely on Starlink
[13:53] Speaker 2: as like the backbone of their highly sensitive communications. Clearly,
[13:57] Speaker 2: you know, SpaceX itself is a huge defense contractor for
[14:02] Speaker 2: the government and always has been. I mean, you know,
[14:04] Speaker 2: they fly security missions for the Pentagon. They have a whole,
[14:09] Speaker 2: you know, kind of product called Star Shield, which is
[14:12] Speaker 2: really for highly sensitive communications. You know, it's like Starlink,
[14:16] Speaker 2: but for the government. And, you know, Pete Hegseth and
[14:19] Speaker 2: Musk are very much aligned about the future of warfare
[14:22] Speaker 2: being all about drones and AI.
[14:24] Speaker 1: He's involved with XAI and Neuralink. How much of his
[14:27] Speaker 1: midterm spending is targeted on particular regulatory change in those domains?
[14:32] Speaker 2: If you think about his companies, they are highly regulated.
[14:35] Speaker 2: Tesla is overseen by, you know, for example, NHTSA and OSHA. Mm-hmm.
[14:40] Speaker 2: You know, SpaceX interacts with the FCC and the FAA.
[14:45] Speaker 2: Neuralink would be the FDA. So he's in he operates
[14:48] Speaker 2: in highly regulated industries. Deregulation is something that he benefits from.
[14:53] Speaker 2: I think that that's part of the reason why Musk
[14:56] Speaker 2: would very much like the power structure to stay as is.
[14:59] Speaker 1: Dan, I think a lot of us remember the very
[15:02] Speaker 1: public falling out that President Trump and Elon Musk had.
[15:05] Speaker 1: Here a couple of years later, what does their relationship
[15:07] Speaker 1: look like?
[15:08] Speaker 2: I mean, they seem to, you know, Elon Musk seems
[15:10] Speaker 2: to be back in the fold. Trump just gave him
[15:12] Speaker 2: some kind of award. I don't even really remember what
[15:15] Speaker 2: it was, like a scientific award. So they need each other.
[15:18] Speaker 2: I mean, Trump and the Republicans need Musk's money. And
[15:23] Speaker 2: Musk would very much like Republicans to stay in power.
[15:27] Speaker 1: I'm curious of what his position in these midterms says
[15:29] Speaker 1: about his broader engagement, yes, with the White House, but
[15:31] Speaker 1: with politics more broadly.
[15:33] Speaker 2: So to take a step back for a second, one
[15:35] Speaker 2: issue that is looming large in all of this is
[15:38] Speaker 2: Musk as the public face of Doge. So as you
[15:40] Speaker 2: may recall, Doge was this sort of slash and burn
[15:42] Speaker 2: effort to forever remake the federal government. And Musk was
[15:46] Speaker 2: the public face of that. And if Democrats win the House,
[15:49] Speaker 2: I imagine there will be a lot of calls for
[15:52] Speaker 2: oversight hearings about Doge and what exactly they did. How
[15:56] Speaker 2: much data did they have access to? Did the Doge
[15:59] Speaker 2: operatives that were embedded in the federal government break the
[16:01] Speaker 2: law when it comes to consumer privacy? Where is that
[16:04] Speaker 2: data now? There are a lot of questions about Doge,
[16:07] Speaker 2: and I don't want Doge to be a memory hold.
[16:10] Speaker 2: And what happened with agencies like USAID has really angered
[16:15] Speaker 2: a lot of people across the country and around the world.
[16:18] Speaker 2: And so there's a reckoning around Doge that could very
[16:21] Speaker 2: much happen if the control changes after November 3rd. So
[16:25] Speaker 2: I think that that's one issue. I think the other
[16:28] Speaker 2: issue is just that, you know, people have always admired
[16:33] Speaker 2: Musk for his ability to build things and create jobs.
[16:38] Speaker 2: I mean, Tesla itself has over 130,000 employees globally. SpaceX
[16:44] Speaker 2: is at maybe 22,000, 23,000. And if you just look
[16:47] Speaker 2: at a map of the United States and where Elon
[16:50] Speaker 2: Musk has factories, it's You know, it's California, it's Texas,
[16:55] Speaker 2: it's Nevada, it's New York with this factory up in Buffalo.
[17:01] Speaker 2: It's Florida where they've got rocket launch operations. They recently
[17:05] Speaker 2: announced plans to build a massive launch pad in coastal Louisiana.
[17:10] Speaker 2: XAI has a data center in Memphis. I mean, if
[17:12] Speaker 2: you just sort of map out congressional districts and where
[17:15] Speaker 2: Elon Musk has installations, he is active in several states.
[17:19] Speaker 2: And so everyone... wants to curry favor with him because
[17:22] Speaker 2: they want those economic development projects in their state.
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