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Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by amanaplanacanal on Friday July 24, 2026 @07:45PM (#49042988)
The tiny part of SpaceX that is actually about space, yes. Unfortunate that it has been bolted onto the hulk of Musk's AI fever dreams.
Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by Geee on Friday July 24, 2026 @08:16PM (#49043210)
It is still about space. AI and space computers are just the vehicle to fund it all.
Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by matthewdgreen on Friday July 24, 2026 @10:52PM (#49044062)
The graveyards are full of blockchain companies who said something similar.
Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by tim333 on Saturday July 25, 2026 @09:58AM (#49047627)
Not many that launched rockets or anything like that.
Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by refulgentis on Friday July 24, 2026 @08:21PM (#49043241)
Billions of AI capex for a model that’s consistently forgettable and space computers, presumably data centers in space, are funding SpaceX?

Isn’t the opposite?

SpaceX has an extremely profitable launch program and a profitable Starlink. It’s a straightforward would be better off financially without X and X.ai.

Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by smallmancontrov on Friday July 24, 2026 @08:37PM (#49043360)
Cash: rockets fund AI

Equity: AI funds rockets

Of all the places that money parted from fools winds up, this is not the worst of them.

Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by Breza on Sunday August 02, 2026 @11:47PM (#49151007)
You are correct. If the company wanted, it could probably be profitable in the next couple of years. But that would require aggressively shedding stuff like X, xAI, and Starship. If they did that, they'd lose a lot of stock market value.
Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by yieldcrv on Friday July 24, 2026 @07:51PM (#49043015)
Even at $38/share it will still be number 20 on the fortune 500 by marketcap

Too bad for Elon gullibles its at $113/share

but its a great company at $38

Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by tim333 on Saturday July 25, 2026 @10:01AM (#49047652)
Depends a bit on how the AI stuff goes.
Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by yieldcrv on Saturday July 25, 2026 @11:43AM (#49048553)
right.

instead of having an enterprise AI strategy, they've become a landlord, renting capacity directly to competitors on a month to month basis, competitors who are building their own compute and can cancel this rental contract at any time.

so they'll use that to try to print rosy revenue numbers, except the size of the contract is until 2029 and the month to month payments can be cancelled at any time.

and they only have capacity to rent out because they don't have an enterprise AI strategy, they overspent on GPUs for an audience that never showed up for Grok, it has abysmal usage and its radioactive because it creates CSAM and is based af. It's just outdated Nvidia hardware that they are trying to recoup just a little bit of value from.

and if you believe in space datacenters, I've got a bridge in brooklyn to sell you! actually space datacenters are the 21st century bridge in brooklyn, whoever is selling you about it thinks you are stupid.

Elon Musk doesn't believe the total addressable market of SpaceX's other business lines are that value in comparison. 25 trillion TAM for enterprise AI applications, 3 for everything else. ruh roh

Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by throwaway2037 on Sunday July 26, 2026 @01:23AM (#49054982)
Tiny part? Huh? Falcon 9, Dragon, Starlink, Starship. That is a LOT of space.
Re:SpaceX Starship Flight 13 livestream [video] by amanaplanacanal on Sunday July 26, 2026 @03:17PM (#49061418)
You should look at the S1 they filed with the SEC. All of their space related stuff including starlink shows a total possible market of 2 trillion, whereas they show AI as over 26 trillion. Basically almost all of their value is AI, not space related activities.