Elon Has Already Won The AI Race!
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Most investors who want to get exposure
in AI think it's all about the models.
Open AAI, Anthropic, Google each have
their own models. But what if the real
winner isn't the company with the best
model? What if it's the company that
owns the entire stack? That's the
argument laid out in this incredible
SpaceX analysis by Bran Wang. Think
about it. Tesla provides the energy,
batteries, transformers, mega packs,
solar chips, vehicles, robots, and real
world data. SpaceX AI provides the
models, reasoning, digital workers,
payments, and software layer. And of
course, let's not forget the launch
system, Starling connectivity, AI
infrastructure, orbital compute,
satellite communications, and eventually
AI data centers in space. But here's the
thing. Brian believes that AI could
become a majority of SpaceX revenue as
early as 2028 with AI infrastructure,
Starlink mobile, digital optimist,
enterprise software, and orbital compute
all feeding the same ecosystem. In other
words, Elon is building a vertically
integrated AI civilization stack. And
wherever the network effects and pricing
power ultimately accumulate, Elon may
already own the entire value chain.
Brian is a futurist thought leader and a
popular science blogger with 1 million
readers per month. Check out his YouTube
channel at Next Big Future and his blog
next big future.com is ranked number one
science news blog. Welcome Brian.
>> Great to be here. Exciting exciting
times. A lot happening.
It is it here we are. A lot of the shows
we've been doing was preparing for the
SpaceX IPO and this is a great analysis
you put together. You called it the
SpaceX IPO AI in space. We we obviously
Elon was being interviewed several times
this week and uh he shared a lot of new
information and generally it is faster,
bigger, more efficient than what
everyone else was uh forecasting. And so
now with those new numbers, I believe
you created a deck here to tell us what
it all means. Right.
>> Right. So in the picture we see there we
have details of the um AI1 uh
satellites. So they will make more
versions of this. They will improve it
beyond this first version. This first
version they will try to get launched
next year. So in the interviews Elon
indicated a goal was to get one gigawatt
of these satellites up in 2027. So that
is a huge statement because I can you
can take there's a number in the bottom
left 70 kilowatts per ton, right? So 70
kilowatts per ton if you want to get one
gigawatt
that means you have to launch like um I
think 13,000 tons or something like
that. So basically you need to have 130
launches of 100 ton payloads in order to
get to one gigawatt, right? So that's
the ballpark of what they'll do next
year. And then each year thereafter,
each 18 months thereafter, they'll be
trying to 10x that.
>> That's the next year.
>> So they go from like 130, right? 30 a
year after that or 18 months after that
1300 the year after that 13,000. So that
that's the the pace which they want to
go and if things get slower that is the
direction that they are going in.
>> That's crazy.
>> Um
>> let's go through the revenue. You got
some more big important slides here.
>> Yeah. Yeah. So 2.5 more revenue. So 2.5
more revenue um than 2026 already. AI
majority only rented 40% of Colossus 2
at the 26 billion dollars. So they still
have another percentage. So Elon said,
you know, he didn't like um um Aaron's
numbers. So he said
too conservative. You're discounting out
to 240, nowhere near our goals. So here
is the numbers where roughly we hit the
goals of 1 gigawatt in 2027, 10 gawatt
in 2028, 100 gawatt, sorry, in 2029. Um,
but I only have the rental line for
space AI for 40% because I'm assuming
that I'm using more of the data center
for the cursor gro and the digital
optimus,
>> right? So, but then we hit to basically
two trillion, 1 trillion, 3 trillion in
2029 and 1 trillion.
>> Where is that? Where's the 1 trillion?
Right. Uh what what do you mean by one
trillion? Market cap or or revenue?
>> What?
>> Revenue?
>> So, you're thinking 1 trillion of
revenue by 2028
>> and then 7 trillion by 2029,
>> right? So this is like if Elon hits the
goals
>> 1 10 100 right because Elon was
complaining he didn't he you know no one
was give me the goals so I said okay
>> Elon you say your goals are this if you
hit these goals and if cursor Grock is
growing every four months right then we
hit these numbers which is
>> more revenue more profit than the top 20
companies today
>> combined the top 20 companies today is
5.
>> You're talking more than Nvidia and
Google and Amazon added up together
>> in four years. There's a potential if he
hits his goal.
>> This is too much. You're telling me that
he's going to be making 7 trillion per
year in revenue
by 2029.
>> That's if he hits his goals,
>> right?
if his goals versus the companies today
and the the other companies today I
think will drag up and and will have
more but you know if he hits his goals
you know versus all the other companies
20 top 20 you know your mag 10 and 20 or
whatever then you hit that number and
the profitability I'm assuming 70%
profitability because it' be so
profitable in this stuff because the AI
is profitable space is profitable then
he has $4 trillion of of ibida which um
the ibida of all these companies now is
about like 1.2 trillion.
>> I mean,
>> so he'd be three times.
>> So you're saying 3,000 three three
trillion in rental space-based AI.
That's crazy number. But then the three
trillion in digital Optimus and Grock,
which is basically a dig it's AI SpaceX
AI part of it. And that part I I it's
hard for me to agree on that part.
>> Yeah. Well, think is I I one thing to
get you should agree. I'm this is me
answering Elon's complaint that no one
really my next slide
>> my next slide I downgrade it by you know
you know I downgrade it by 80%. you know
to only one trillion in 2029 but you
know if it's 1 trillion 2030 whatever
right I downgrade it where it's like he
only gets you know like you know five
gigawatts or four gigawatts up in 2029
right so things take longer the 5
gigawatts takes you know like you know
3,000 launches right over you know a few
years so I downgrade that and then I
downgrade the cursor revenue and then I
the AI rental revenue
is physical stuff on here. So, I don't
upgrade that much. Starlink is basically
him getting, you know, the the 200
million dishes out there, right? And the
DTC direct to cell phone is him getting
the B3 satellites up there. So, this is
my more reasoned thing, but because
Elon's complaining that, hey, no one's
run the numbers, I ran the numbers. So,
my previous this is my I think they
should be able
>> This is crazy numbers. So, first of all,
I just did a quick look. Apple revenue
is 451 billion in annual revenue per
year. Nvidia is a 200 million um 200
billion. So, so you're talking,
you know, Apple size revenue by 2028 and
then like blowing everybody away by 202
>> and like like four or five revenue
streams that are invidious scale today.
>> Wow.
>> Right.
>> I guess so. I don't know, man.
Well, the thing is even if I zero if you
zero out space AI, zero out digital
Optimus, those things aren't happening.
It zeros them out, right?
>> Then just on Starlink and DTC and AI
rental,
>> I'm at 500 billion. I'm as bigger than
Apple from that stuff. And then the
launch is guaranteed. The launch thing
is they're the US government is going to
do uh Golden Dome. They already have $6
billion worth of contracts for Golden
Dome, right? Golden Dome being gonna not
have all these um you know stop missile
stop drones and stop stuff, right? They
plan to spend $185 billion over the next
three years on Golden Dome.
>> Who do they give the money to on that?
There's no one else can give it to on
launch. No one else can give it to on on
salary production, right? So at least
oneird if not one half of 185 billion.
So that would be line number one, space
enabled solutions, right? So they're
already at $6 billion this year. How do
they not go to 20 $30 billion per year
if all the Golden Dome contracts come to
them? And then there's NASA contracts.
>> Well, it's not just the launch because
Golden Dome will want Starshield, which
is a version of Starlink.
>> They'll want Starlink Mobile, the Star
Shield Mobile, a version of that. And
they want AI data centers because you
don't want the US government's, you
know, AI infrastructure in in a data
center on Earth that they can easily be
blown up by launch a rocket. And you
need,
>> right,
>> you need to also Yeah. just just
and and stuff like um they already have
like 89% of all satellites, all ground
stations, all whatever. So if I go up
you know 10 100 times they have 99% of
all ground stations 99% of all other
space all ground infrastructure right so
again there's the monopoly is complete
there's no one else to go to to get this
stuff if you try and give it to someone
else no one at scale right so that money
comes to SpaceX and I you know again I
didn't even push that hard I think the
space enabled solutions should go to
like 30 50 And thing is the
Congressional Budget Office says that'll
be $1 trillion or more over 20 years to
do the Golden Dome, right? But the thing
is whatever
um US government project landed on
budget and they're going to spend way
more than $1 trillion on on the Golden
Dome stuff and then every other country
will need a golden dome, right? So
anyway, so this is again somewhat
conserved. So then based on the total
addressable markets, they're getting to
significant fractions of this. If the
the Elon plan happens and they get to
like 7 trillion, they're at 25% of these
tamps. So the reason that they're
rolling out these TAMs is they're
actually going for this. They're going
for the these TAMs, right? So even in my
more conservative case, you're at, you
know, 5%, you know, 8% of these TAMs,
right? So the thing is they want these
TAMs in the next 10 years,
right? So So again, people who think,
well, I just dismissed these TAMs. Elon
just saying, I'm deadly serious.
>> Yeah. I mean, I don't know. It's cra I
mean, like, you know, if you just if you
didn't have this trillion dollar thing
here, people, you wouldn't be able to
say SpaceX is worth two trillion today.
So that's why, you know, they threw some
massive number. But you're saying, hey,
there's some real reality here. This is
not some madeup number. This is
>> right. this is road map going towards.
>> It's like, you know, he didn't just make
it up because he wants to,
>> you know, pump up the IPO. He This is
like actual bottom up
>> enterprise AI could be worth this much.
>> It's great.
>> Right. Right. And you know, Starlink
broadband saying, you know, again, 200
billion, you know, Starlink mobile 200
billion and then they expand and grow
that they can get to those numbers. So,
and they totally own that a
infrastructure.
>> They're building it and they have a big
chunk of it. U consumer subscriptions
that's X and XAI the XA XAI part you
know which we just dis dismissed if I
have three billion five billion
smartphones with my communications
they will be using first thing they see
will be X and X payments right so
they'll have three million they'll be in
the Google meta range
>> and and and given what we our discussion
on the on the Starlink you know,
satellites and all that. I have no doubt
Tesla is going to be making many
different form factors of bots, not just
humanoid. And there's going and and
SpaceX is likely going to make many
devices. Not a phone, it's an AI device.
So he goes, I'm not making a phone, but
he's making AI device, which is a slab,
a necklace, a wrist thing, glasses,
everything will be connected. We'll have
instant AI access. Trust me, believe
this. They are doing this. So, anybody
who says, "Yes, he's not going to create
a phone, but it's like it's going to be,
you know, the Elon the Steve Jobs thing.
It's a phone. It's an internet access."
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah.
>> It's a music player. No, guys. This is
an AI device.
>> Every form factor.
>> Okay. So, so then other things about
detail. So, this goes to the master
orbit target, right? So again, the
master orbit target in 2028,
it's looking like about 200,000 tons to
orbit, right? So that would need 1,200
ton launches or 2,100 ton launches
there. And that's like the year after
next year.
>> So how how many flights does that mean?
So how many flights start
>> that? That's I think they convert to I
think they'll be converting to the 200
ton payload version four rockets in
2027. So that means 200,000 would need
uh 1,000 launches.
>> 1,000 Starship launches of version four.
If they haven't switched to version
four, you need 2,000 launches of the
Starship. They're going to try and
launch um they try and launch like a
couple weeks ago and it will try and
launch again. Seems a little aggressive
to me because if you're talking uh
>> how many how many did you say a thousand
flights?
>> A thousand is three a day.
>> That seems crazy for 2028.
>> So they have four launch towers that
they're working on, right? They have
three that will basically be working
next year and the fourth one sometime in
next year or earlier. Um, so the money
raised, this goes to they need more
launch towers. Like in if you think
about the launches, you could get to,
you know, a launch per day. People see
that they're already at like a launch
every two days right now at 170. So
Falcon 9, they're launch every two days,
right? And they have like two main
launch facilities. They have um
Cape Canaveral and they have Vandenberg,
right? So um so if when you think about
this is how many launch towers they have
and the the more they want if I wanted
to do two launches per day then I need
to have the window for the uh shutdown
period where I'm messing up air traffic.
I need to have that shortened up to 30
minutes or less which is what they've
achieved with Falcon 9. they have a
short launch window, but basically they
say, "Okay, everyone stop flying for the
next 10 minutes and then 20 minutes the
rocket's gone and then they open the
airspace up again, right? So there
there's a bunch of things around that.
The other thing would be that so
basically to achieve this I think they
would need um about four new launch
towers uh four new launch sites and and
launch towers and ideally ones away from
air traffic because um you know if I
have less air traffic then I can launch
like four eight times per day less issue
because I don't have to stop air
traffic. It's just like can I get them
going? But then I probably would need to
have four to six launch towers at that
launch site because I want to stack I'm
stacking 5,000 tons worth of ship with
fuel on each one and I'm filling it with
200 tons worth of of satellite. So I
probably have a line of them ready to
go. Like this one's ready to go. Next
one ready to go. Next one ready to go.
Next to go launch, four hours later
launch. Launch board later. So the
logistics of doing this involve it's
like you're creating the um the
shipyards where you have big cranes
lifting up um you know 40 ton 80 ton um
rail cars you know onto ships where you
got like the mega ship with 18,000
things. Those are the kind of operations
we're looking at right like shipyard
containers of crap moving in.
>> It's not as hard as people think.
Famous words of course not. It is very
hard right? Uh but it the hard part is
the reusable rocket and they've they're
on their way and then from now on is
scale. Right. So Okay.
>> Right.
>> Mhm.
>> So when you payload up like all those
numbers convert basically divide them by
200. That's the number of launches in
each year. And so that means out in 2029
they're looking 10,000 12,000 13,000. So
they're going beyond that. That's their
their plan. And then megawws per
Starship. and think about how many
megawatts, how many kilowatts per ton
and then figure out I have 100 tons or
200 tons and then that means how many
megawws in order to get my gigawatt 130
launches 13,000 launches 10,000 launches
for u you know 100 gigawatts um and then
yeah AI half by the the the back half of
2027 and more than half of sorry I has a
spelling mistakes there um so AI is
actually already about half of their
revenue because people keep ignoring the
anthropic Google deal which is $26
billion per year. So them making two and
a2.2 billion per month starting from
October like $1.2 billion now and then
going to 2.2 2 billion means that they
will have you know 12 15 billion dollars
in the back half and that does not
include cursor and the the the data
they're doing with cursor is going to be
bought for 2 to 3% of the shares of
SpaceX
>> so that will happen they will own that
>> cursor has doubled revenue
>> in the last four months I saw
>> two billion in just the last month
>> if you keep d
>> yeah if you keep doubling every four
months that means in In 12 months you go
up eight times.
>> So then they'll be at 36 32 billion per
year by this time.
>> Yeah. Could be. It's a fast follower
toropic. Yeah. Yeah.
>> Brennanthropic. That's right. So we can
go to the next slide. So then they show
details about like what the the details
of the AI salad will do. So you have in
the left these three racks of of things
and they may have different number of
racks. They're just saying they're gonna
put multiple racks into each module that
will attach to the body of it. So they
have cooling and separation of these
things. So then this the larger view is
the one on the right where you didn't
zoom in. The the line of things in the
center body between the solar panels is
where all these racks of of AI are. So
you just have these little blades kind
of popping in modules of it with cooling
and with all the AI just kind of sitting
there just powered up on it.
>> And the thing is they can show details
about this because no one else can do it
at scale.
>> No one can do it. So it literally is an
AI uh server instead of an inside of a
ware factory.
These are just racks. They're literally
just racks. It's so simple. Look how
simple that is.
>> Shaming the
>> Yeah.
>> Right.
>> And the thing is they can show all the
detail like like they won't show the
detail of the Tesla bot because figure
might or or you know unitry might make
their their things but they can show
this cuz no one else can do it. They can
say I'm going to show you everything.
I'm going to open the curtain behind the
Wizard of Oz because there's nothing you
can do. I
>> I disagree. I think the Chinese
obviously are going to copy this
instantly and they're going to be up in
space and they'll be competing with AI
data centers in space. There's no doubt
about that.
>> So, but they can't do it at the scale
like the the 100,000 tons because
because
>> right last year 4,000 tons was launched
to space. 3,000 tons was was SpaceX. So,
the rest is China at 500 tons. But
unless China had the fully reusable
rocket to go from 4,000 tons to 500,000
tons in three years,
>> they're not going to get it done in
three years. Yeah, they'll be a a slow
follower, but they'll be the first one
there.
>> Okay.
>> Right. Right. They'll be the first one
there. Yeah.
>> Okay. This is a comparison done by um
one of the other people on X for the
version 1.5, version two, version three,
and now A1. The other thing is that
>> the A1 won't be the last one. like in
order for them to hit these numbers,
they'll need something twice as big,
four times as big. Um like 2028 and
>> twice as big,
>> right? So they they'll be
>> twice as big. Yeah. In terms of the
solar panels, other stuff.
>> I showed a photo where this is the size
of a Boeing 7878.
>> These are the wingspans. Yeah.
>> The same size. 70 m total.
>> It's massive.
>> Yep.
>> But in space it's tiny.
>> Okay. That's right. In space was tiny.
Yeah. So the reason this is huge demand
is this is the terrestrial buildout of
data centers in the United States. Okay.
So the black means under construction
and the orange is the announced but not
under construction. Right? So they
wanted 12 gawatts in 2026
>> and they wanted 10 gawatts in 2025.
>> Each year they're only completing maybe
5 gawatts. Right? So, and the thing is
some of the black is under construction
and not completed because it takes most
other places four years instead of one
year for XAI, right? So, the other part
of like why is Anthropic and Google
paying $26 billion to XAI is because
they have 20% of all AI data center
that's actually working, right? So
that's why they're ahead of with the $26
billion, they're ahead of Amazon on AI
cloud. Amazon makes $150 billion on all
cloud, but they only make $15 billion
per year annualized on AI cloud. So
they're ahead of them. They're ahead of
Google's entire cloud business. Google's
entire cloud business is $20 billion.
They're $26 billion. So it's not like
future all that stuff has to happen even
on terrestrial data center they're
kicking butt if they said okay I give up
on cursor and grock what they have I
rent out Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 that
is 64 billion per year of revenue of the
stuff that they have built and they're
adding they're talking about adding
another 220,000 chips 400 megawatts
probably in the next 6 months that
replaces is all of the stuff they rented
out to uh Anthropic and Google. They can
repeat that because they built another
every six months they're adding that
stuff up.
>> So, this is the insane economics they
have and they already have the deal for
like 2 gigawatts of of natural gas. They
have the third location so they can
expand this stuff up. So, the fact that
you know that they're leaders in
terrestrial AI right now. Can you repeat
what you just said because that was
mind-blowing to me. You're saying that
SpaceX AI terrestrial colossus data
centers that they're building in 6
months they can have $60 billion
per year instead of $24 billion per year
run rate. They could rent out more to
equal $60 billion a year by the end of
six months. Like they have that much
space if they decide to rent it. If they
decide to, you know, whatever.
>> Yeah.
>> Yeah. your slide here with the US the
terrestrial US data center buildout
shows that every company who wants to
have a data center are struggling to
even get it under construction. It'll
take two to three years and so there is
a tremendous demand. I think Microsoft
probably is going to be the next company
to announce that they're a partnership
and they're going to buy billions of
dollars worth,
>> right? Who like the the the demand went
vertical for uh Anthropic um you know
where they went from like um 9 billion
to 47 billion. So 5x in five months 5x
in five months
>> and they if they have more data center
they could go to 100 billion to $200
billion.
>> Where did you get that number from? So
that's
>> if if enthropic
>> I got that from Gavin Baker.
>> If Enthropic had more data centers for
inference specifically, not training
anymore. We're talking inference just
because when I want to ask a question,
it needs to have inference chips to give
me the answer back. They keep throttling
users because the demand is so high.
They don't have enough data center. So
they they throttle it. They make the
they make the models dumber. They
purposely have to make it dumber and
then they give you
>> but if they had they could they could
buy more from SpaceX AI they could I
think who said that I think Jensen Hong
the more chips the more money you make
it simply says the more data centers you
build the more money you're going to
make simple as that and so
>> right
>> of course Anthropic will go ahead and
pay another two billion a month
>> to rent from data centers from XAI
because they're going to make
>> 8 billion a month whatever five five
billion a Right. Dylan Patel says the
demand is five times supply. So semi
analysis using $7 million of analysis of
all tokens says if we could 5x our
supply the demand would meet it. So we
can go to like you know 300 billion$500
billion like next year or even beyond.
So so the demand is just unlimited which
is why he said every data center will
rent out. If you just want it, you just
say your price, go rent it out. First
tier, second tier, third tier data
center.
>> Yeah. Okay. Can you clarify again that
you is it true that after Elon clarified
what he says is going to happen that
2027 that you're actually going to have
1 gawatt of data center already in space
in 2027. That's next year. Is that true?
Because that's been pulled forward from
2028,
>> right? That's his goal to do it. So it
depends upon um version three starship
working. So by working I mean um
deploying um deploying satellites which
means restart the engine. So that the
last time they went up it returned they
return starship they didn't return the
booster. So this next goound they
relight the engine. So the relight the
engine means that they can if it goes to
orbit I can restart it. I can take
>> control descent. Yeah. coldest because
if I can't take it out of orbit, I have
a 200 300 ton hunk of space junk I can't
do anything about which risks their
10,000 satellites. They can't have that
lying around potentially damaging their
satellites, right? They will take it
out. So once they relight the engine,
then they can put up and they've done it
three or four times. They can put up
real satellites now. So then even if
they don't bring the booster or the
starship back once I just relight the
engine say um I I prove the relight next
time one after that I relight and take
and go to orbit I'm deploying real
satellites in the second mission after
this current one right one more and then
the next one after that so let's say
they go in June in July they start
launching real satellites version three
satellites right and they'll launch a
full Starlink though. Yeah.
>> Right.
>> Still
>> that's Starlink version three sally.
Right. But then and then that's money to
them and then recovering the booster.
They have done that three times. All
these people say nothing's ever proven.
They've already recovered three boosters
and they've relaunched two of them in
the 12 tests they've done. They already
did that. So they probably can do that
again. So one once they do any
deployment of anything from Starship
they immediately get cheaper than Falcon
9
>> and Falcon 9 is five 10 times cheaper
than anything else. So they immediately
get cheaper than anything else even if
they blow up the the booster and the
Starship.
>> Y
>> I don't recover anything. I just launch
it and then that's $500 per kilogram. I
recover the booster three, four, five
times. I'm at $100 per kilogram. Don't
recover the Starship, right? I'm only up
to the point where we're at now at now
where I recover the booster. So then I'm
expending six engines per launch. I
don't cover Starship yet. I'm only
recovering the 33 engines of the booster
or 36 engines and I have the the the six
engines. So then I'm launching at $100
per kilogram. I'm replacing six engines
every launch. I can launch a 100 times,
lose 600 engines, and I'm still fine. I
can launch. I can make 1,200. They can
make 5,000 engines a year.
>> How do you know that? That they can make
five Oh, 5,000 engines. How many How
many rockets?
>> Raptor fours, Raptor 3es, Raptor 3es.
The the the engines on each one of the
rockets.
>> It's not the rate limiting step.
>> Yeah.
>> It's not the rate limiting step, right?
So then I have to make as enough of the
of the upper stage in order to do it.
But obviously I don't want to do that
because I can go even faster if I can
replace them both. If I replace them
both, then I'm down to like 50 bucks, 20
bucks for a kilogram. Okay.
>> Right. And I'm flying.
>> I'm just trying to get to the dates. So,
you're you do believe that there's a
real chance that they can get to one
gigawatt into space AI data center
viable by next year. And what is 1
gawatt equivalent to? I know that he
said it's two times electricity of of US
uh you know, consumption right now, but
what is it equal to?
>> No, no, one gawatt is one nuclear
reactor. One gigawatt is one nuclear
reactor. One gigawatt is Colossus. Um,
>> okay, there you go. That's what I'm
saying. So, it's equivalent to Colossus
2. So, which could deliver what? How
many billions per year? Per month
>> if you put Rubmanships in them. I
believe Rubman ships will rent for at
least double what a B200 is. So then
basically I can double what I'm charging
to um
>> anthropic
>> um
>> Google Anthropic, right? So I would say
it' be 500,000 chips. And so you have
550,000 chips of whatever. If you rent
it out at the current B200 price, that's
$50 billion per year. The price I'm
paying charging for Google is $50
billion. So if I double that, that's
hundred billion because I'm doing Reuben
ships.
>> This is crazy. Wait, this is crazy
numbers. Are you serious about this? So
if he puts up one gigawatt in 2027,
he could get just that one gigawatt
could be rented. If it's Reuben chips,
he can get a hundred billion dollars per
year renting that space out because I
I'm freaking out as far because 100
billion is what how many cars Tesla
sells.
all Tesla revenue
revenue right now that took how many
years to get where we're at is 100
billion a year which is yeah I I think
uh I think some of the big boys you know
they're making 100 billion every quarter
but still this just instantly makes
Starlink and this just one gigawatt and
they could keep like boom boom boom
repeating it
>> right right
>> crazy and they'll keep you doing the
newest chips so it'll be Reuben Fineman
each time getting more and more value
Right. Oh my god.
>> And then they can still make another
gigawatt and 2 gawatts on Earth cuz
Colossus 3 macro harder. They have the
land. They've been preparing it. They
just need to throw up the shell and and
put, you know, do what they did for
Colossus 2 right there.
>> And then of course they can use it for
themselves. That's the whole thing too.
And that's why that is being written off
by everyone else that Grock is a loser,
not there. But hey, if you give Grock
all that power, now this is for
inference, isn't it? It's not for
training,
>> right? Not for training.
>> So, how do you get Grock to be smarter?
I thought the whole point was the bigger
the data center, the bigger the
training, the bigger I mean, I remember
CEO Dario, he said, you he has a tough
decision all the time. He has to decide
how much of the chips I have, do I do
for training so I can smarter
intelligence or do I do it for
inference? And I think he says 50/50
kind of thing. it's, you know, he that's
he doesn't know how to do it. Right.
>> Right. So that's why the the ground um
earth-based data centers like Colossus 2
are still needed because they'll still
do training in it, but it's not going to
be 50/50 anymore. It'll probably be like
2080 20% training, 80% inference because
as you recall, um Elon and and SpaceX
rewrote the the training stack into C.
So this it's uh 90% more efficient. So
now I can do twice as much training
instead of doing 50% I'm down to
>> they're just innovating left, right, and
center everywhere, aren't they?
>> Their ability to build fast but also uh
they they rewrote the ability to yeah to
training faster in just smaller number
of chips required right
>> Jesus it's crazy.
>> Yeah. So this is again one of the
modules three tree three and I think I
don't think necessarily you can should
count how many just representing how
many um racks.
>> So this is the rack right here or what
is does this expand through this?
>> They they're covering it they're
covering it with a protective shell and
probably also has something to do with
heat dissipation or other crap. So
they're covering their their racks with
a bit of protection so that you know a
little bit of dust doesn't break it up.
And then the Giga Satellite factory. So
this is um you know how they're going to
have 1,000 acres nearly two square
miles, 11 million uh buildings square
feet. So as as big as um Giga Austin
will be all these things making solar
cells, wafers um terminals um PCB
terminals which are the big money
makers.
>> This part right here is the existing
one, right? Just this is the one that
>> right the next slide shows
>> this is what's existing now as in it's
already making the
the the
>> dishes and satellites for
>> uh space starink for starlink and then
they plan to build this for the AI
satellites solar cells sol
>> and AI satellite production
>> right
>> when how long will it take to build all
this out
>> um I'm sure they get the buildings up in
in a year. Um, filling in the equipment
might take another year or two. Like
roughly, I would think, well, if they
want to get this thing going, then they
have to be working by 2028, right? That
was the goal. 2027, you probably need
certain things, at least part of it
working at the line level. So, they need
to put it up in in less than a year and
then get fully
>> AI satellite, AI AI satellite one needs
to be made by 2027 to get that one
gigawatt up.
>> Um, you need um I think you need about
13,000 That's a lot.
>> Let me just double check that right now.
>> That's a lot.
>> Yeah. 10,000. Yeah.
>> So, I don't know if they're going to get
that done by next year.
>> That's a lot.
>> That's the goal. That's a goal. It's a
lot. Yeah. It's a lot. But but they they
they're making version three salaries,
which are very similar,
>> right? And they they're very scaling
those version 3es to about 5 10,000 per
year.
>> So, they put the communication guys up
first. Yes.
>> Right. And then they'll get these things
going as well, which they say are easy.
>> True. So they'll be diverting they're
diverting B3 production into AI
satellites
>> and the and the the the goals they have
indicate half like before I thought okay
I'll put up all 5,000 all 30,000
communication satellites up first right
>> there Elon basically saying I'm
prioritizing AI even maybe over that one
because if I'm I have enough capacity up
there to have double the customers right
so If I if I only need to add 2,000 more
V3s in order to match I want to go to 50
million customers by the end of next
year, right? I can only I only have to
launch like, you know, 40 launches or or
30 launches for communications and then
I can have the rest for this other new
thing which needs more stuff. So this
could become 70 80% of the launches next
year because they can say, "Okay, I I'll
get less on the communication side, but
still enough to give my my customers
what they need."
>> Okay, great great points here because I
interviewed Aaron Bernett of Mach 33 and
he has the most comprehensive SpaceX
business model out there. Elon loves it.
Arc Invest and he collaborated and what
he said was that you know the hardest
part for his decision-m is to try to
read Elon's mind and on and where you
would allocate the funding where would
you allocate the funding would you and
he spent he prioritized Starlink V3 and
had that going out to until 2028 where
you got the AI satellites Elon comes out
does an interview and says what you just
said no no no we're going to get one
gigawatt of AI satellite out next year
and then you said which is he said this
too the starting V3 they're already
doing it now there was a clip that I
played where he and the engineer said
that actually the same technologies to
build the V3 is this it's similar to the
A1 in fact they actually said it's
easier to create these A1 satellites
than it is these V3s because they're
bigger and they're they're simpler
technology so they feel very confident
that like you just said they're already
making you said 5,000 of these
Now,
>> so to be able to then make, you know,
these it's not it's not crazy numbers as
I was alluding to earlier,
>> right? And I I'm thinking that they're
cannibalizing
the intended V3 production.
>> I was going to make 10,000. Now it's
like screw that. I make 2,000 of the
V3s, 8,000 of the AIS,
>> right? Um the other thing is I've I've
done work with Aaron and with Vlad um
his his main guy on some like aer some
articles where we did research on on the
SpaceX side. Another disclosure is I own
you know SpaceX and not I own other
stuff around that. So just
>> you own the SpaceX stock already. So
just your and other things around it. So
just FYI. Yeah.
>> Okay.
>> Yeah. Just FYI. Yeah. I did you know
SPVS and stuff like uh you know six
years ago. Yeah. So, so in terms of my
analysis, it is um um Mach 33 Aaron
Bernett level because I actually have
worked with them.
>> Okay. Well, I can tell. Yeah, you're
you're one of the best out there. Thank
you for sharing that info with our
audience. This is terrifying. Yeah, it's
massive.
>> Right. Right. So, 10 times the um the
size of the Austin Gigafactory, you
know, which is many times the size of
the Pentagon. Well, I mean the Giga
Texas factory was supposed to be the
largest factory in on the US except for
the Boeing factory. I think Boeing is
the only one that's bigger.
>> And now they're creating tariff which is
10 times bigger than that there. Yeah,
this is unbelievable,
>> right? And they'll have, you know,
double the output of the US um energy
consumption. So the 500 gawatts United
States, one terowatt for this thing. And
again, just um initial plans, you know,
they just want to keep going. I know of
course he has bigger ideas or bigger
missions.
>> So something else that appeared in the
in the video interview is he gave the
TAM a total addressable market um in
rough terms for highspeed internet. He
said a few hundred million of these
terminals which are the dishes to
receive highspeed internet. These are
the new version five highspeed internet
dishes. A regular one and a mobile one.
That's what you're watching right now.
And they are thinner than the current
dishes. So they're getting rid of, you
know, their inventory of old dishes and
they're converting to the V5. Um, it
also will be able to handle military and
government workloads.
>> So this these were taken apart at the
firmware level by a Ukrainian guy
because you can't get support in
Ukraine. So they have to take it apart.
So then they at the firmware level
they're analyzing this thing to do it.
There is no GPS in these new version
fives. So that means Starlink location
is better than regular GPS. That's what
another thing that means. These things
are the construction of these at boss
electronics.
Think of them as a flat screen monitor.
That's what that's what those those
things are in terms of the economics and
in terms of all that kind of stuff. So
how much does it cost for a small
screen? You know, if it's just a small
screen, it's less than 100 bucks.
>> 300 bucks, 500 bucks for these uh,
>> you know, 21 by7, you know, monitors
that I have.
>> Yeah. Right. But then the smaller
monitor is even cheaper. You can get it
down to like 30 bucks or 50 bucks. So
those are economics. And then production
getting to hundreds of millions, tens of
millions, 100 million, the TV, the
monitors built every year. So they can
get to that level. So right now they're
at about a million per month. They're
scaling up to 1.5 million per month.
They will double again to three million
and double again to 6 million per month.
At 6 million per month, that's 72
million per year. Saying a few hundred
million terminals is where they're going
towards.
>> So these things do more less power. One
to two hour battery.
>> So and also battery included. So
normally for a dish you need to plug it
into the wall in order to run it.
There's a lithium battery in this thing
to give it one to two hours of power. So
I can like have it not plugged into
anything
>> and you're already
>> and I can run it run it for one to two
hours,
>> right? And I have a USBC adapter. So if
I had a a car or anything that the ash
uh the cigarette lighter,
>> I can power it with a USBC.
>> So all the connections are standard now.
>> Um yeah, so just it's a consumer
product,
>> right? And able to handle military grade
workloads as well. uh finance, banking,
government, these things can do it all.
And the thing is they'll won't stop at
these these two products. They can make
a super mini mini that might be like,
you know, the size of that other thing,
you know, like sm of a phone and then
they'll pump that out. So there'll be
variation on the products that they will
have here. So anyway, so 100 million few
hundred million terminals, let's say 400
million terminals, right? That's the
kind of what a few hundred million might
mean. That would be about $200 billion
per year. At $50 per month or $40 per
month, they can get to $200 billion of
just high-speed internet revenue. And
they can scale up again the dishes out
in two or three years.
>> This is crazy. That's unbelievable. So,
this is basically all you need to do in
order to get high-speed internet is buy
one of these things and if they can make
it as cheap as a flat screen monitor, uh
they might even just give it to you for
free. I I've seen some promotions now
and then you they charge you some much
much cheaper price than right now it's
about equivalent to you know Comcast or
Xfinity and these other internet
providers. Uh but now this will make it
easier and cheaper and then you you just
you just point this up to this guy and
uh you got internet access at high speed
>> and you're good to go.
>> Yep. Sticking to every car everywhere.
>> That's what this is for, isn't it? This
mini is going to be in the cyber cabs.
We already saw every cyber many cyber
cabs we're seeing them bolting in one of
these things
>> and they're pretty big but if it's this
small it could just be part of the roof
even know it's there
>> pretty simple
>> every every optimus as well. Yeah, this
could be. What do you think? Well, no,
but it's got to be facing up. It can't
be on the head, right? So, what on the
back?
>> It can be on the head, but it can be on
the back. And then if it needs to angle
up, it can bend over a bit. You know, it
it can do whatever it wants.
>> Maybe
>> whatever orientation you want.
>> Maybe. I don't know.
>> Okay.
>> And yeah, so
>> I guess it's like a backpack, right?
Like if you have military use or you got
these optimists that are d, you know,
going up the mountains or out working on
the farms. Yeah. You don't want to be
plugging them into an electricity
>> and so they they've got to like have a
backpack in the back which is this thing
and it's getting internet access.
>> Yeah. And just some little lever thing
or arm and just angles it up a bit.
>> Yeah. So the other thing is the Echoar
Spectrum that they got
>> is used in the new dishes.
>> This means more bandwidth. So not only
would the XR spectrum used for the
direct to cell phone which you can use
it for it also enhances highspeed
internet. So if you and that means they
can go symmetrical. Right now the upload
download speed is I upload at 10 to 20
megabits per second. I download at 200
megabits per second 400 megabit.
>> That's what I get here. Yeah.
>> Right. Right. But now with the extra
spectrum of the new version five uh dish
>> I can have
>> Oh my god. This is crazy. 100 up, 100
down, 300 up, 300 down, 500 up, 500
down, gigabit up and down.
>> They can go to gigabit up and down. Uh,
with that, so it's faster and
symmetrical. So that means any kind of
like, you know, gamer application, other
stuff like that. I can do it 20
millisecond latency. So be fully
competitive with fiber.
>> So I can get the gigabit fiber, latency
of fiber, up and down of fiber, fully
competency.
I mean, I can't even get that with my
wired freaking
I'm so upset with me. Look at you. Your
your internet's terrible, dude.
>> I know. I know. I'm pushing over to Sky.
>> Yeah. My problem with me is that they
will charge me I think at one point
$1,000
uh extra fee just because because of the
demand is so high in the city here.
>> Then I think they lowered to 500 bucks.
So, I might just pull the trigger. But,
>> you know, it's like they need they can't
be doing that. they got they can't be
charging me extra just because and so I
think with the V3s going up that would
eliminate this congestion that they have
of limited bandwidth limited offering
and then maybe the bigger cities can you
tell me or that because you know how
they've always positioned it that this
is really for rural it's not for big
cities where there's too many people.
>> Yeah. So they can by having 10 times 20
times more capacity that means they can
go from a little bit in urban to a lot
more in urban
>> and if I say okay well I want to limit
it to 100 megabits per second I can
still get all the customers so you can
get to you know a nice V4 V5 but thing
is B3 and 15,000 V3s 20 times better
than V2 is not where it stops. He
already said V4 and B5.
>> And he said 100,000. So now if I have
100,000, I have 10 times more dishes and
I've gone to 100 times more speed. So a
thousand times more speed. So now I
think they can do urban. I think they
can then do urban with that because
they'll have a thousand times more more
capacity, right? So then they'll be
going straight into urban areas
competing on everything.
>> I mean they're just going to win it
straight out. They're going to win it
straight out. This is crazy. lowest
price, highest, right?
>> You know, enough bandwidth that people
are happy. The key thing was the
latency. Yeah. And uh they're there. The
new technology is, as you just said,
right there.
>> So, direct communication everywhere,
direct AI everywhere. This is the
perfect timing, right? Right. When
everybody's increasing their token
usage, asking questions, getting answers
back from the AI, you need that
everywhere and anywhere you go. And now
you you can do this
>> high bandwidth,
>> right? Right. Yeah. Yeah. So, you're
getting every AI access you need, every
communication you need, every GPS, it's
everything that they're delivering
everywhere. Uh, so no restriction. And
then some people say, well, they have
less spectrum of this or that. They'll
be making crap tons of money. They're
going to buy more spectrum, right? So,
so then they'll be able to compete on
everything. I think they'll be
converting to the 200 ton payload
version 4 rockets in 2027. So, that
means 200,000 would need Okay. Whoa, you
got more.
>> Yeah. Yeah. Um, this is just showing the
speed which they built the classic one
class
>> compared to other guys is big. Yeah.
More more power. Yeah. Next. Um, yeah.
So, number two in AI rent only open
AI/Microsoft has more the Golden Dome
part of it skipped over. We discussed
it.
>> Uh, next one. And then you know how much
ARR the companies have bottom line of
the first column. Amazon $15 billion run
rate for AI revenue on the bottom line.
Yep, there it is. AI revenue. $15
billion run rate. So, they're already
almost double that at $26 billion run
rate. In October, they'll have that. And
then um Microsoft has less overall
cloud, but they have more AI AR because
of uh Open AI at 37 billion. And then
all cloud revenue for Google is 20
billion. So, we're already beyond them
in in with AI the better cloud revenue.
>> Yeah. Just instantly all of a sudden
leaprog these guys.
>> Wow. That's right. Okay.
>> Yeah. And then the next one. Yeah. So
then this is just um adapting into Tesla
which we can discuss later next time is
that Tesla can rent Cortex. Tesla can
rent AI they put at superchargers and at
power walls and mega chargers. So
there's all these chips that Tesla can
also rent out. There's a bunch of free
money that uh Tesla will be taking that
will be a substantial boost. So, next
time we can discuss how Tesla can do the
same thing and how that folds into what
SpaceX is doing because they're, you
know, Siamese twins.
>> Tesla can run, too.
>> You know, uh,
>> yeah,
>> Tesla and SpaceX are gonna probably
merge. So,
>> SpaceX is going to run, too.
>> That's right.
>> Okay. Right. Wow. This is powerful and
uh you did a lot of work as always and
we appreciate it. This is uh as the
elite level analysis uh you you dive
deeper than everyone else as you you
contribute to Mach 33 uh and others and
so you you're right up there. So, wow.
This was there was several areas today
that was just mind-blowing and uh I
can't I can't wrap my head around it and
I don't want to cuz I still I think it's
too crazy.
>> But yeah, that's that's Elon, right? And
>> that's right.
>> Thank you for sharing. Yeah,
>> you're welcome.
>> Uh yeah, check out Brian at his uh blog
at nextbigfuture.com.
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The discussion features analyst Brian Wang presenting a detailed breakdown of how SpaceX, under Elon Musk's vision, is moving toward becoming a dominant force in AI through a vertically integrated 'civilization stack.' By leveraging massive improvements in launch capacity and satellite technology, SpaceX plans to deploy AI infrastructure both terrestrially and in space. The analysis argues that SpaceX's potential revenue growth could surpass the top current tech companies combined within a few years, driven by Starlink, data center rentals, and high-speed global connectivity for various form factors, including future AI devices.
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