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Re:Grok 4.7 by redox99 on Monday September 21, 2026 @12:49PM (#49789771)
xAI is the most profitable part of SpaceX by far.
Re:Grok 4.7 by blisterpeanuts on Monday September 21, 2026 @01:25PM (#49790352)
About half of SpaceX revenue is Starlink subscriptions. Starlink is the one profitable division; the rest of the company operates at a loss, including xAI.
Re:Grok 4.7 by redox99 on Monday September 21, 2026 @01:41PM (#49790582)
That's outdated and doesn't fully include the multiple billion per month contracts.

Anthropic: 1.25B/month

Google: 0.92B/month

Unnamed customer starting in december: 1.1B/month

Starlink monthly revenue is ~1.5B/month

Re:Grok 4.7 by chris_money202 on Monday September 21, 2026 @01:52PM (#49790775)
Isn't this to rent the datacenters though? That's not really long term revenue if xAI will eventually need them back.
Re:Grok 4.7 by redox99 on Monday September 21, 2026 @02:06PM (#49790975)
Renting datacenters is their mission, now on earth and later in space (assuming they deliver).
Re:Grok 4.7 by chris_money202 on Monday September 21, 2026 @06:08PM (#49794104)
I don't know that's moving the goalpost, SpaceX's mission was not that originally. Some could say the original mission failed and they are pivoting, Elon will say it's a means to the end of the original mission still to save face. Some read it all as snake oil