NEW YORK, Dec 12 — Elon Musk has signaled plans to soon seek a public stock listing of SpaceX, confirming a report that links the strategic shift to a near-term need for more capital.

Musk, who is also the CEO of Tesla among other ventures, described as “accurate” a report in online publication Ars Technica outlining the controversial billionaire’s embrace of a public listing as a way to access capital to finance the building of artificial intelligence data centers in space.