SpaceX is hiring a natural gas trader for its rockets and chips
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SpaceX building an in-house natural gas trading desk is a tell—large compute and launch players are vertically integrating into energy markets, not just buying power. Any operator planning multi-hundred-MW AI or fab projects should treat fuel and power trading as a core capability, not a back-office procurement function.
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