The world's richest man says he's living in a trailer

When your nett worthy is almost $1 trillion, you tin take to unrecorded wherever you want, and correct now, for Elon Musk, that's a trailer.

Musk, the world's richest person, said connected Monday that he's presently calling an Airstream trailer location while overseeing xAI's Macrohard information halfway buildout successful Tennessee.

The billionaire has been personally embedded successful Memphis successful caller months arsenic SpaceX, which absorbed xAI earlier this year, races to bring much GPU capacity online, and he says he has been sleeping steps from the servers alternatively than commuting.

Speaking astatine an arena hosted by the tech podcast "All-In," Musk described the trailer arsenic his "palace," prompting laughter from hosts Chamath Palihapitiya, Jason Calacanis, David Sacks, and David Friedberg, arsenic good arsenic SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell.

"This is Elon, by the way, doing what group don't judge he does: He sleeps connected the mill floor. He's successful Memphis helping build buildings," Shotwell said successful response.

Airstream, founded successful 1931, is known for its iconic riveted-aluminum "silver bullet" design, introduced successful 1936 and mostly unchanged since. A 1960 Airstream Bambi is portion of the imperishable postulation astatine the Museum of Modern Art, and NASA utilized a modified Airstream to quarantine the Apollo 11 astronauts aft their return from the moon.

The astronaut relationship is apt, fixed Musk's domiciled successful the American abstraction manufacture arsenic the laminitis of SpaceX.

Staying successful a trailer alternatively than securing much imperishable lodging isn't retired of characteristic for Musk, who has a way grounds of sleeping astatine his workplaces alternatively than commuting, and surviving successful comparatively humble homes.

Musk famously slept astatine the San Francisco office of Twitter, now X, aft acquiring the institution successful 2022. His superior residence for years was a astir $50,000 rented location adjacent SpaceX's Starbase installation successful Boca Chica, Texas.

Musk besides owns a prefab Boxabl unit adjacent Starbase, though he has said he doesn't really unrecorded successful it and alternatively uses it arsenic a impermanent house.

During his quality astatine All-In was asked why Tesla and SpaceX are still abstracted companies. He didn't norm retired a merger. Instead, he pointed to really overmuch "collaboration" already happens betwixt the two, adding that it's difficult to foretell what mightiness travel of it.

Neither Tesla nor SpaceX has commented further connected a imaginable merger. Speculation astir combining the companies has circulated periodically since SpaceX revenge for its first nationalist offering earlier this year.

Musk has agelong been known for an around-the-clock activity schedule and minimal sleep, and the push to standard AI infrastructure, on pinch a imaginable Tesla-SpaceX tie-up, is making that estimation much acute than ever.