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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.

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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.

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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.
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