SpaceX Has Two AI Compute Stories; Only One Generates Revenue (14 minute read) (opens in new tab)

SpaceX's S-1 tells two stories. The first is that the company is spending billions building terrestrial data centers and has signed one disclosed external customer, Anthropic, with a deal worth $1.25 billion per month through to May 2029. The second is that the future of AI inference belongs in orbit and that SpaceX is the only company that has already accomplished the key technical challenges associated with evolving connectivity satellites into AI compute satellites. Both stories are presen...