Elon Musk receives FTC greenlight to buy Mesh Optical as interconnects emerge as AI's tightest bottleneck — the move will expand Musk's growing stack of critical AI infrastructure

Elon Musk receives FTC greenlight to buy Mesh Optical as interconnects emerge as AI's tightest bottleneck — the move will expand Musk's growing stack of critical AI infrastructure

Elon Musk has received the go-ahead from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) to acquire Mesh Optical Technologies, an AI infrastructure startup that develops light-based networking hardware for data centers. Records published by the FTC on June 25 show that the regulatory body granted early termination of its antitrust review of the transaction, permitting Musk to procure Mesh. While the deal is yet to be finalized, with no official statement fro…