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Why The Airbus A380 Is Making An Unlikely Comeback
The Airbus A380 made its first commercial flight in 2007. When it debuted, it overtook the long reigning Boeing 747 as the world’s biggest passenger plane. It has four engines and is a full double-decker that can carry over 800 people depending on the airline.
The plane’s huge number of seats was seen as key in helping to free up the air traffic overcrowding at several big airports such as London’s Heathrow, New York’s JFK and Chicago’s O’Hare.
But orders for four engine aircraft began to decline alongside the arrival of more fuel-friendly planes such as Airbus’s own A350 and Boeing’s 787 Dreamliner.
The European plane maker Airbus announced an end to its A380 superjumbo program just 12 years after it first took to the skies. During the Covid-19 pandemic it was one of the most heavily impacted fleets due to its sheer size and cost to operate it, along with a near-halt to international long-haul travel. Many said it was the end for superjumbos, but the A380 has been making a comeback with several airlines pulling planes out of retirement.
Airbus expects the A380 to be flying for the next two decades and is currently still being operated by 10 airlines including Emirates, Lufthansa, Etihad Airways and British Airways.
CNBC explores how the A380 became the biggest passenger plane in the world and what the future looks like for the massive jet.
Chapters:
2:44 Development
6:32 Commercial service
9:53 Challenges
11:33 The future
Produced, shot and edited by Erin Black
Additional Camera by Maggie Petrova
Animation by Gene Kim
Supervising Producer Jeniece Pettitt
Editorial Support by Leslie Josephs
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Why The Airbus A380 Is Making An Unlikely Comeback
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Elon Musk’s xAI, now known as SpaceXAI following a merger with SpaceX, has made the Memphis, Tennessee area the center of its AI ambitions. XAI is building three data centers there, as well as a power plant in Southaven, Mississippi. XAI’s AI infrastructure there truly deserves its name Colossus. It’s a modern marvel that was built with breakneck speed. Anthropic and Google are now renting compute capacity at the data centers in a deals worth billions of dollars. But some say the buildout has been chaotic. XAI is now facing multiple lawsuits accusing the company of using loud, pollution-emitting gas turbines, some without the required Clean Air Act permits. CNBC traveled to Memphis and Southaven to speak with locals to learn why the data centers are such a flashpoint, to find out why backlash against data centers is spreading nationwide, and to learn what hyperscalers can do to win support as they race to build AI infrastructure.
Chapters:
00:00 – 3:54 Introduction
3:55 – 10:28 SpaceX’s AI ambitions
10:29 – 17:02 Gas-burning turbines
17:03 – 20:28 Constant noise
20:29 – 22:37 Millions of gallons of water
22:38 – 28:59 Growing AI backlash
Senior Director: Jeniece Pettitt
Reporter: Lora Kolodny
Camera and Additional Editing: Andrew Evers
Edited by: Marisa Forziati
Animation: Jason Reginato, Emily Park
VP, Executive Producer: Kamelia Angelova
Senior Technology Editor: Ari Levy
Bureau Chief: Christina Passariello
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How Memphis Became The Epicenter Of SpaceX’s AI Ambitions
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Chinese automakers have made over $100 billion in EV and battery investments abroad since 2019, according to Atlas Public Policy, far outpacing US firms. CNBC’s Robert Ferris has more on how the Asian country got here and why.
Chapter 1: What is happening – 01:18
Chapter 2: Why this matters – 03:05
Chapter 3: The future – 06:00
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Produced by: Robert Ferris
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Additional Editing: Darren Geeter
Animation: Jason Reginato, Emily Park
Senior Managing Producer: Tala Hadavi
Additional Footage: Getty Images, AP
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How China came to dominate the global EV factory boom
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Cisco buys tech startup AppDynamics one day before its IPO. Here’s what to expect next.
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The AI race is shifting from who has the biggest model to who can run, control and deploy AI most effectively.
Perplexity CEO Aravind Srinivas joins to discuss the company’s new orchestrator model, why he’s building on open-source Chinese AI, and his argument that “token value per watt” may decide the next phase of competition.
Then, Benchmark general partner Peter Fenton and Ollama CEO Jeff Morgan discuss the rise of open models, why enterprises are increasingly running models they can download and control, and what Ollama’s growth says about where the AI ecosystem is heading.
Together, the conversations get at one big question: in AI’s next race, will the winners be defined less by model access and more by cost, control and compute?
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AI’s Next Race: Cost, Control, and Compute
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Federal Reserve Chairman Kevin Warsh is floating major revisions to the central bank’s approach to assets, productivity, data, inflation and public communications. To achieve this, Warsh has created 5 “task forces” while soliciting interest from individuals outside of the Fed. This presents an opportunity for a small unelected group to influence the broader U.S. economy and value of U.S. dollars circulating globally. CNBC’s Matt Peterson reports.
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Reporter: Matt Peterson
Produced and Edited by: Carlos Waters
Camera by: Charlotte Morabito
Animation: Jason Reginato
Senior Managing Producer: Shawn Baldwin
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