• realitista@lemmus.org
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    3 months ago

    Because all space companies need a social network and an ai coding company. It just makes sense. And your pension needs to buy this very logical company because it’s large enough to be in the index.

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        3 months ago

        SpaceX is an infrastructure company. Deeply dependent on government good will and contracts. It leases it’s data center compute to actual AI companies.

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          3 months ago

          They aren’t deeply dependent on government contracts anymore. Starlink will be able to support them. Government good will, id say yes.

          Starship is currently a money pit on the launch side, and will make or break that the company depending on if it works.

          Its leasing excess capacity, but that might not always be the case, but IMO that business model is probably better than the selling an LLM model one, but if you run out of people willing to lease it, youre still left with a pile of hardware you gotta do something with.

          If they stop leasing, xAI becomes a money pit too.

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            3 months ago

            I agree. But suffice to say if NASA walks away from SpaceX because they fail to deliver, it’ll make an outsized dent to their perceived value.

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              3 months ago

              For sure, if something happened and NASA walks away, or reduces their interactions with SpaceX that will have ripple effects beyond what they currently provide.

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        3 months ago

        This truly is the weirdest timeline. The only division of this shit company that brings in any money is the space and rockets division. However, the technology divisions are a money pit.

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        3 months ago

        Isn’t the only part of company which is profitable space stuff?