SpaceX Now Makes More Money From AI Than From Rockets and Starlink Combined
SpaceX’s AI business just outearned its rockets and Starlink combined, bringing in $7.6 billion of a $14.6 billion quarter. But the AI buildout is costing almost $20 billion a quarter, and Elon Musk has now put a Tesla-SpaceX merger on the table. Here’s what the numbers really say, three scenarios for what comes next, and why Tesla’s earnings tonight could be the next big signal.
SpaceX Wants $40 Billion to Buy Nvidia Chips: Why the AI Boom Is Becoming a Financing Boom
SpaceX just pulled off the largest IPO in history, and it is already asking lenders for another $40 billion to buy Nvidia chips. The chips aren't the story. The borrowing is. When an entire build-out shifts from cash flow to credit, the price lenders charge starts setting the pace, and the first real test of that price arrives with this deal.