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What's expected to be the biggest IPO in

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history is happening Friday, and the

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question everyone is asking is, should I

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invest? Elon Musk just released a video

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of him being interviewed by SpaceX

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executives, and there were several

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mind-blowing new information they

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shared. Everything, it seems, is bigger

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and better than what most were

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expecting. First, the Terra Fab has been

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revealed to be expected to be around 100

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million square ft. This would make it 10

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times larger than the Tesla Giga Texas

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factory. At one terowatt per year, that

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would be double the entire electricity

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consumption of the US. Second, for the

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first time, SpaceX officially unveiled

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the first generation of its AI

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satellite. And it's a doozy at 70 m

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long. When deployed, that would be the

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same size as the wingspan of a Boeing

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7478. Surprisingly, Elon said the AI

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satellite is actually much simpler than

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a Starlink satellite and that a lot of

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this is technology they've already made

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with the Starlink V3 satellites. SpaceX

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presentation just blew up most forecast

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and now we might see AI data centers up

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with more capacity than expected sooner

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than later. So, should you invest?

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That's a question we'll discuss today. A

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new Morning Star report says they think

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SpaceX is only worth half of its IPO

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price. I guess we'll find out starting

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Friday. We got Joe Bacti here with us

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today. He's an economist, investor, and

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tech entrepreneur. He has a YouTube

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channel covering both Tesla and AGI.

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Check out his website and community at

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pioneerlands.org. Welcome, Joe.

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>> Good to be back.

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>> You've been following and you've done

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your own research on space-based AI data

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centers as uh a number of folks did. I

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just interviewed um Aaron Bernett of

1:38

Mach 33. They had the most uh

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comprehensive uh business modeling of

1:44

SpaceX and they were trying to be as

1:47

conservative as possible and I can

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already see after this presentation that

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Elon did in SpaceX, they shared their

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actual plans and it's blowing everyone

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away. It's a lot more bigger, faster,

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better than anyone expected as sometimes

2:04

Elon is able to accomplish. So, it was a

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30inut interview with Elon and I've got

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that um published on my channel as well.

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It was filmed at SpaceX Starlink

2:14

terminal factory in Bastrop, Texas by

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some of the engineering leads. They were

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asking him questions and him sharing it.

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One of the biggest uh revelation was the

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Terra app. So, this is a joint project

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between Tesla and SpaceX and it is

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massive 100 million square feet which is

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10 times larger than Tesla's Giga Texas

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factory. 10 times larger in and g the

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Giga Texas factory was supposed to be

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it's like the largest building in all of

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the United States. I think it's only

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smaller than the Boeing factory here in

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Washington state. 1 terowatt per year.

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If when they get to terapab output of 1

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terowatt per year, that is double the

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entire annual US consumption of

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electricity right now.5 terowatts. So

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this is massive. Let's listen. And to

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give you a sense of scale here, uh we

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expect that the Terrafab is going to be

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around 100 million square feet, uh which

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is 10 times the size of the uh the Tesla

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Gigafactory Texas.

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>> And what aside from just, you know, I'm

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going to need Starship pointtooint to

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get from one end to the other. Aside

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from just the size, what's going to make

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this unique, different from any other

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chip building operation on the planet?

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>> Well, I think over time there's going to

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be a lot of technology evolution with

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the Terra Fab, but fundamentally it's

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about scale. So even if there were no uh

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fundamental technology breakthroughs

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and and you simply you you could simply

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scale uh the existing chipm technology u

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with a lot of difficulty uh to a

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terowatt of chip output per year. Um

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that's you if you look at it just from

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the logic die standpoint that's uh

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that's equivalent that's like having a

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billion chips per year with a a kilowatt

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pericle. So a billion full radical

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equivalent chips uh each doing a

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kilowatt and then you're going to need a

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lot of memory to

4:15

>> by the way he said that you'll need a

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lot of memory. So maybe micro stock will

4:19

keep going up but they they're they're

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limited. I bet you Tesla will have to

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create their own memory. Well that this

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is the chip is everything built in by

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the way including memory right that so

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they're not going to be limited by them.

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Well, when it comes to SpaceX, it's kind

4:32

of a conundrum

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so far to me how how to invest in it

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because on one side, it is very clear

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this is the most hyped IPO ever and the

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biggest

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>> which is not good in my opinion. So, the

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odds that it's getting hyped goes to 2.5

4:51

trillion quickly and then falls is just

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very high just on a pure psychology

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momentum thing, right? At the same time,

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we are hoping to conclude our work on

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our valuation model. I'm still tweaking

5:04

because I can't believe the numbers, but

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I mean, it could be that this is

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actually vastly undervalued, this

5:11

company. And that puts me in a

5:16

interesting spot. I I'm highly convinced

5:19

the stock is going to drop after getting

5:21

pumped because of dynamics and momentum.

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At the same time, it might be that it's

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dramatically undervalued. And on top of

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being dramatically undervalued on a

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discounted cash flow basis, if you look

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like forward,

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what's also very interesting is that the

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path to scaled super cash flow is super

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tight and fast.

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So, it's all totally nuts. And what is

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nuts about this company is that it

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completely breaks everything we know

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about normal companies and scurves and

5:56

economics because it has the Starink

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business which scales to probably a

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trillion revenue pretty easily and

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straightforward. It's a completely

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superior product. It's completely out in

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the open. The only constraint is they

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need more satellites and that constraint

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is being removed constantly more and

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more. So they are just going to scale

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this. They're going to scale it to a

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trillion revenue. That gives you enough

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kind of buffer for the big thing. And

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the big thing are AI satellites. And I

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said it in November when I first covered

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this. People don't understand that this

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is not complicated. They think it's some

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pie in the sky thing. And now Elon

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presented the whole thing. And I said, I

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I told you it's not complicated. And my

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initial numbers were actually a little

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higher, the cost and transport kilogram

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numbers than the real numbers. I was I

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buil in a buffer and I said this might

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happen by 2028 at scale and now Elon

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said the most important thing he said

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because when people talk about Luna mass

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accelerator mass cities all kinds of

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stuff I'm thinking I don't care about

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this stuff it's fine it's going to

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happen but it doesn't help the stock at

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all because this is just fantasy it's

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long term what I'm interested in is next

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year what happens next year and Elon

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said and of course people are now going

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to Joe, you're stupid. Elon's always

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wrong, blah, blah. I wouldn't be so sure

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here because he's right that these

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satellites are easier than staling

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satellites. And guess what? They have

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10,000 Starling satellites. They know

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how to build these things. And look at

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the satellite. It's easy. It's a wreck

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of Nvidia. It's a radiator. I told

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everyone they're not going to be so

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large. They have a plan and they have

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the solar panels. That's it. And Elon

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said 1 gawatt in space end of next year

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and the year after 10 gawatt. So if that

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is true, it's so game over. You can't

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even imagine it. This is an infinite

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money printing machine if you assume

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that we need infinite compute. But

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that's something I clearly assume.

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>> Yeah, I think we do.

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>> And so,

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you know, it it doesn't matter how you

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turn it. Uh it's crazy.

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So it's a very fascinating situation. I

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think it's just

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>> yeah let's uh share the for the very

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first time they then shared what is the

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SpaceX AI satellites. They have a

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wingspan of 70 m when deployed. Uh a

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Boeing 7478 has a wingspan of 68 m. So

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they're pretty well as the same size.

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Here's a nice photo here. Thank you to

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Nick Cruz Patane. Here's a Boeing 7478.

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And this is the AI satellite. They

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shared it. They showed you what it looks

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like. Here's what it looks like compared

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to the Starlink V3. But the point you

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were making is they already make

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Starlink V2s and V3s. They already know

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how to do this. And this is an AI

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satellite. So, it's bigger. In fact,

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being bigger is actually easier

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according to Elon. Um, uh, you know,

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it's the first generation 150 kilowatt

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peak compute payload. I don't know these

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numbers. 70 kilowatt per ton. You can

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read the the specs, the dimensions, the

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thermal system, the solar power, the

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architecture here. But this is what he

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said. The EI satellite is much simpler

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than a Starling satellite. Um, let's

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listen to this.

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>> And to give you a sense of scale here,

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uh, we expect

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>> Yeah, before we go there, I think we saw

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it.

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>> Uh, the more challenging part is

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figuring out how to get how do you get

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the power for it. Uh and and that's

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where a lot of what we've worked on for

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existing like Starwing technology, the

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solar arrays um

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are what we want to utilize uh that

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expertise to to be able to build a

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satellite that can actually launch the

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critical components of the data center

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into space itself. Um

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we like to look at this and say like

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what is what is the actual engineering

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problem here? and and it's it's really a

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combination of delivering power and then

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taking the waste heat and energy away

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and sending it into the vacuum of space

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as you mentioned.

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>> This is our AI1 if you guys want to walk

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us through.

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>> Yeah.

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>> Yeah. So, so the first thing that we're

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we're really looking at here is like

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first you've got to make something

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compelling uh right and and we thought

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that the right place to start is uh

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around the 150 kilowatt like peak power

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level. Um, but as we look at the

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workloads with with our experience with

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XAI, uh, we get to actually see the that

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we can also support about 120 kilowatts

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of average compute. There's a

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difference.

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>> Yes. What we're showing here is kind of

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a a draft version of the version one of

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the of the SpaceX AI satellite, an AI1,

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I guess you could call it. Um and uh

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seems like a reasonable place to start

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is 150 kW peak power, 120 kW sustained

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power. And um and to give you a sense of

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what does that actually look like in

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terms of the size of the radiators, size

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of the solar panels, um the assumptions

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here are 250 watts per square meter for

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the solar array and um about 1,400 watts

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per square meter for the radiators. So

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the radiators, these are double-sided

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radiators are radiating both sides.

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They're uh oriented knife edge to the

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sun and uh and and it's 1400 watts per

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square meter is a very achievable goal.

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Over time, we think we could probably do

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above 250 watts per square meter and

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above 1400 watts per square meter for

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the uh solar panels and radiators

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respectively. Um but this gives you like

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a this is pretty much what the

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satellite's going to look like. It's a

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lot of solar panels, radiator, and then

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everything else is pretty small by

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comparison.

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>> And these are like evolutions of of

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things that we have actually already

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launched in in in our Starling

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constellation to date.

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>> That's that's really I think the the

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cool part to me is that we're we're

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looking at solar technology that we

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already are are going to use on on the

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V3 uh Starlink vehicle. So, uh I I'm

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like really excited to then just take

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those and make it bigger.

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>> Yeah. Part of what we want what we want

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to convey here is that this there's not

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some um magic that's necessary that

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doesn't exist for the AI satellites. Uh

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as Ian said, this is a lot of this is u

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technology we've already made for the

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Starink B3 satellites.

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>> Great. Same technology. So,

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>> I mean, yeah, I yeah, I I don't know. I

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think a lot of people I the interesting

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thing here is I said it first when I saw

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the Fidelity Fidelity head of private

12:31

markets or something uh talk about it.

12:34

What's very fascinating here is you have

12:37

this company that kind of breaks reality

12:40

in a crazy way, right? This is a company

12:43

that might open up the first market

12:45

where you just have infinity scale. you

12:47

can just create infinite money. And

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normally you would expect people not to

12:52

understand that because it's weird. Uh

12:56

but when you watch Ron Baron, when you

12:58

even see Fidelity, everyone seems to

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understand it. So this is like breaking

13:02

my reality a little bit. Like how is it

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possible? We have this new company that

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just goes to space and can scale

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endlessly and everyone kind of

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understands it. So it's a I think we are

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entering like some form of new reality

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which is very interesting and I mean of

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course not everyone understands but a

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surprising number of people kind of

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understand that this is a this is just a

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paradigm shift

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>> and the skepticism is much lower than

13:30

with Tesla for example even though the b

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the business is infinitely larger. So

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it's a very interesting situation. We

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we'll cover Morning Star who thinks that

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the SpaceX stock should be half the

13:42

price of its IPO based on their

13:44

understanding. So you know there are

13:45

people who are looking at this with

13:47

skeptical eyes. Um but on the other hand

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I think one of the premiums should be

13:52

that there's no one else that can do

13:54

this. So the question is can these guys

13:56

do this? But if they can do it it's

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really the market is all to themselves

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and you're seeing Google line up to

14:03

rent. Anthropic came out and said that

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we do want those AI that satellites.

14:08

We'll talk about that when they come

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available two years from now. We're not

14:11

thinking about it now, but we would want

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to be available for that. So, they're

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the only game in town. So, if it works

14:17

out okay so other than the AI satellite,

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the next thing is also the solar and uh

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even that look at look at these terapabs

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but also the

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>> to give you a sense of scale here. Uh we

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expect that the terrafab is going to be

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around 100 million square feet. Okay,

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that's the terra fab. Um, take this one.

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>> Uh, yes, we're going to, in fact, we

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already have the solar manufacturing

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facility. It's under construction

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already. And, uh,

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and then we will be building out the

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AISAT production building soon. Um and

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uh yeah so we expect to have the this

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theat production the solar production um

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and uh all of that operating at some

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reasonable volume by the end of next

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year.

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>> So if anybody wants to work on a AI

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satellites this is kind of going to

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become the hub of that. We're also so I

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mean like right behind us the machines

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are humming. We're still making all of

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our user terminals for Starlink here.

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That's not going anywhere. In fact,

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we're turning on new production lines

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for new units, right?

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>> Uh yes. Um in fact, these are the new

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Star Stallink terminals uh which we made

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in much higher volume than than the

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current uh terminals. Um you know,

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ultimately we think there's probably

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going to be a few hundred million

15:39

Starink terminals out there. And then

15:42

our the Starlink direct to cell

15:43

constellation will um connect directly

15:46

to people's cell phones and enable uh

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high bandwidth communication directly

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from your phone to space.

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>> All right, we're

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>> So they're making it sound like uh boy,

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they made progress already with the ASAT

15:59

factory, the solar factory. Here's the

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Starlink terminals he was pointing out

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uh which will be made in higher volumes

16:06

than the current terminals. We will

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ultimately make a few hundred million

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Starlink terminals out there. This is

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the nextG versions of them. They don't

16:14

have the specs yet, but it's a little

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bit more rounded off. This is the

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version. So, they've designed the

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Starling terminal. Like you said, it's

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already out there and it's already

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happening. The Starship will be aiming

16:25

to get go from 2,500 tons to orbit to

16:28

millions of tons a year in orbit. We

16:29

think we can get a million tons of orbit

16:31

in about a 3 years. And you can see

16:33

here, here's the date, 2028. So, I think

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2028 is still right the date when we're

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going to be able to get AI satellites

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out there or what were you saying? Do

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you think it might come sooner like next

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year?

16:46

>> No, he said he said end of next year 1

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gawatt in space. That's crazy.

16:51

>> Is that is that too um

16:54

>> No, I did the math on it.

16:56

>> Yeah.

16:56

>> Uh it's definitely possible. Uh I forgot

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the numbers. I have to look it up again.

17:02

I think you need like a 100 flights or

17:04

50 flight 50 or 100 I think 100 was my

17:06

number and 50 was their number. So if

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you get to a 50 flights that's not very

17:11

hard 50 Starship flights right because

17:13

they already have 10 flights this year

17:15

or something with cargo. So it's

17:18

completely conceivable that they get to

17:20

50 and then I think because I had

17:23

calculated a 100 flights or something.

17:26

Um, but they basically cut all my uh

17:30

mass and everything in half because I I

17:32

was conservative in my estimate. So now

17:35

that we actually have the actual

17:36

numbers, it's roughly half. So I have to

17:39

look it up again, but roughly something

17:40

like this. So it's ambitious, but given

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Starship's, you know, activity, it's

17:46

totally possible

17:48

>> that by next year there'll be some

17:50

versions of AI satellites already going.

17:52

A gigawatt. A gigawatt is a lot by the

17:56

way.

17:56

>> Here's what he said about success of

17:58

starship

17:58

>> through that it's necessary to make life

18:00

multilanetary

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as well as to ascend the cadesev scale.

18:04

You you simply cannot ascend the cartef

18:06

scale unless you have a re reusable

18:09

spacecraft and you cannot extend life uh

18:12

to the moon to Mars and rest of the

18:14

solar system without a reusable rocket.

18:16

Um the cost is simply prohibitive. You

18:19

you can't you can't make enough rockets.

18:21

>> Yeah. uh unless you fly unless you can

18:23

refly them. Uh just like any other mode

18:25

of transport, you can imagine that if uh

18:27

if we had to throw away airplanes every

18:29

time we flew, uh flying would be far too

18:31

expensive and basically no one would be

18:33

flying airplanes.

18:34

>> You're doing a whole lot more driving.

18:35

Rapid reusability.

18:37

>> Yes.

18:38

>> Um every mode of transport is reusable.

18:41

Um without which is simply not viable as

18:44

as a transport uh system. Uh so cars,

18:48

planes, boats, horses, bicycles are all

18:52

obviously reusable.

18:53

>> Yeah.

18:53

>> Um with rockets, it's much harder to

18:56

make a rocket reusable because Earth has

18:59

a deep gravity well and a thick

19:01

atmosphere. Um and these make it just

19:03

barely possible to achieve reusability

19:06

with a rocket. Um and there have been,

19:09

you know, many prior attempts to

19:12

create a re a fully reusable rocket. Um,

19:14

and they most of those attempts have

19:16

been abandoned partway through because

19:18

they they didn't think they could

19:20

succeed. Uh, in order to achieve full

19:22

reusability, everything's got to be

19:24

perfect. The engines, the structure, the

19:27

avionics, um, the choice of propellant,

19:31

uh,

19:33

you've got you've got to go to extreme

19:34

measures for mass optimization, which is

19:36

why we have the tower catch the rocket

19:38

instead of putting on landing legs,

19:40

which are heavy. uh the the rocket can

19:42

simply be caught by the tower and we

19:44

haven't achieved full reusability yet

19:46

but we do expect to achieve that

19:48

hopefully later this year with Starship

19:50

and then you you've got to achieve full

19:52

reusability then you've also you got to

19:54

go step beyond that which is um make it

19:57

rapidly reusable such that

19:59

>> the rocket lands gets caught by the

20:01

tower gets put back on the launch stand

20:04

and can be flown again without any

20:06

refurbishment or laborious inspection

20:09

like an aircraft. Yeah.

20:11

>> Um, this is incredibly difficult. This

20:13

is the first time that there's ever been

20:14

a rocket where that is possible. That's

20:18

what makes Starship so profound. I it it

20:20

also happens to be the the largest

20:23

flying object ever made, the heaviest

20:25

flying object ever made,

20:26

>> the most powerful moving object of any

20:29

kind. Starship B3 is more than double

20:33

the thrust of it. the Saturn 5 moon

20:35

rocket. Uh by version four, we'll be

20:38

pretty much three times the thrust of a

20:39

Saturn 5 moon rocket. And we expect this

20:42

we expect Starship to be flying um more

20:45

than once per hour down.

20:47

>> Wow. More than once per hour. So, uh

20:49

it's all about time frame. So, we saw

20:51

Starship V3 successful launch a couple

20:53

of weeks ago. Now, he's now they're

20:56

they're talking like it's a done deal.

20:58

It's pretty close. And so you're

20:59

confident that by next year 2027,

21:02

>> there will be maybe 50 flights of

21:04

Starship. Uh they already have 10 of

21:07

these Starships. So he was saying that

21:09

even if last couple weeks ago was a

21:11

total failure, uh they would they've got

21:13

a several lined up anyways.

21:15

>> It wasn't even a failure, by the way.

21:16

They delivered all the styling

21:17

satellites. So uh also when I do the

21:20

math, um these are experimental flights

21:23

kind of and Starship cannot be reused

21:25

right now, but they're very close to

21:27

making it happen. And it doesn't matter

21:29

if you manufacture 50 starships and you

21:31

lose them all. So what? You still have

21:33

50 times 150 tons to orbit because they

21:36

have payload and they deliver the

21:38

payload. That's what they did in V13. So

21:41

people should not overestimate this

21:43

whole Starship reusability issue. You

21:45

can do everything without reusability.

21:48

You just

21:49

>> right this year. Not you don't

21:50

necessarily need to solve reusability

21:52

next year.

21:53

>> Exactly. Of course you need to

21:55

>> three years. Four years. Yeah. But when

21:57

you look at the vast economic advantages

21:59

of Starship, if you don't reuse it, even

22:02

because it's so large, it brings down

22:04

cost to orbit by 5x if you reuse the

22:07

booster five times and don't reuse

22:09

Starship. So compared to Falcon. So it's

22:12

already below a,000 bucks. It's close to

22:15

500 depending how you compute. So this

22:17

is all very interesting and of course

22:19

you can lose a little bit of money with

22:20

your AI satellites for the first

22:22

gigawatt. Who cares? Because this is all

22:24

a curve, right? you start delivering it.

22:26

You're testing all your flights, but

22:28

while you test, you already deliver all

22:29

these satellites and I think it's just

22:33

crazy. I mean we are putting together

22:35

this bigger model because you need kind

22:37

of a master model of the future which

22:39

also takes into consideration AGI the

22:42

LLM progress the harness progress

22:44

because that is the question if you need

22:46

infinite compute is the product there

22:49

that's anthropic openi gro cursor like

22:52

can they actually deploy intelligence

22:55

economically sound but everything points

22:58

in the direction that the answer is yes

23:00

because they already have a scaling they

23:02

they already supply constraint they're

23:03

not demand constraint anthropic and open

23:06

and so on. So if you if you see

23:08

continued advancements in AGI

23:12

just a little bit more even if the model

23:14

uh progress would flatten out you have

23:16

all the harnessing it's not even used

23:18

the model power in terms of enterprise

23:20

value and labor replacement. So if that

23:24

just continues even at half the speed we

23:26

see now we are done by next year for

23:28

infinite demand effectively for

23:30

replacing our labor then you have a

23:32

total compute constraint and that means

23:35

all compute you deliver it just gets

23:37

turned into massive amounts of dollars

23:39

because it's like so valuable and if

23:41

that's the case

23:43

you know there is this someone said

23:45

something very smart about Elon who was

23:48

I forgot uh that Elon's strength is that

23:52

he can has this first principle future

23:54

design thing that he understands how the

23:56

future looks like. I don't think that's

23:57

super complicated if you're reasonably

23:59

smart, but he does then something that

24:02

no one else really did so far. He can

24:05

connect this future vision that is

24:07

correct, correctly simulated and strings

24:10

up like a bunch of pearls and each pearl

24:13

is like a trillion dollar business model

24:15

that works now, not in the future. That

24:18

is the magic trick. Envisioning the

24:19

future correctly is kind of easy in my

24:21

opinion. Not everyone can do it, but I

24:23

think it's easy. The hard part is to

24:25

then line up the trillion dollar pearls

24:27

that immediately out of the gate work

24:29

like Tesla Model Y and Model 3 money

24:32

printing machines. 40 billion on the

24:34

balance sheet. Now, Starink super cash

24:38

flow cash cow, you know, printing tens

24:41

of billions and soon hundreds of

24:43

billions in cash flow, then adding the

24:46

compute thing, which is completely nuts.

24:48

Then you just print infinity trillions.

24:51

Then you build the lunar thing which

24:53

just boosts that functioning core core

24:56

business model and that is the magic of

24:58

Elon. It's not just the future vision

25:01

but can you engineer the pathway to that

25:04

vision with infinity cash flow and

25:07

that's a good skill to have and we just

25:10

see it in action now. It's crazy that

25:12

they have Starink printing the money

25:16

while they are also launching orbital AI

25:19

and that thing will kick in in earnest.

25:22

That is my projection in 2028 like where

25:24

you see billions and tens of billions of

25:27

free cash flow from that already

25:29

>> and then it's just totally unhinged.

25:31

Then you can just I mean this is a crazy

25:33

business model. you know

25:36

when you said when you said for Tesla

25:38

the most important thing is FSD does it

25:41

work and if it does everything's already

25:43

you know you can see the cyber cab you

25:44

can see the scaling you can see all that

25:46

will then scale and you can calculate

25:47

but it does it work in SpaceX equivalent

25:50

it's Starship does Starship work because

25:53

if you can send that big massive you

25:55

know vehicle up

25:56

>> well the only problem is that it's no

25:59

problem the problem is it does already

26:02

work

26:02

>> no that's my point So now that one you

26:05

they've already you know people don't

26:06

realize it but that was a critical step

26:09

and now that if you can remove that risk

26:11

then you go and say star link is not a

26:14

risk it's already out there and then

26:15

they've improved it and you can already

26:17

at this point pretty pretty confidently

26:20

map out how much money you just you know

26:21

named a few numbers there then the AI

26:23

satellite that one is at risk we don't

26:25

know if that's going to work but they

26:26

said it's similar technology is what

26:28

we're doing with V3 that gives us some

26:30

>> look at if you when you look at I said

26:31

this

26:33

in your mind easy and you now you see

26:36

the design like what exactly do you

26:38

think can go wrong?

26:39

>> Right. Right. It's it's it's not as

26:40

risky as people initially were saying

26:42

six months ago and but then you know

26:45

he's Elon's very he's known for being a

26:48

little too aggressive. He says it'll be

26:49

out there in 2027. Well, give it another

26:51

year or two. Okay, fine. But even then

26:53

my point is take a look at the key

26:55

points. Okay, there are people let's go

26:57

through this morning star who does who

26:59

thinks that SpaceX IPO is too overvalued

27:01

and this is great. you should have both

27:04

sides of the story. Uh they think that

27:06

SpaceX should only be valued at $63

27:08

instead of $135

27:10

per share. It's a 53% discount to the

27:13

upcoming IPO's offering price. Um giving

27:16

SpaceX, even if you give them the

27:18

benefit of the doubt in several key

27:19

forecasts, only the most optimistic

27:21

moonshot scenario approaches the IPO

27:23

offering price is what they're saying.

27:25

Nicholas Owens uh posted this and um

27:29

let's see uh two of the in two and even

27:32

if you give him a lot of benefit doubt

27:34

in two of the three scenarios in which

27:36

we assume the company can achieve a

27:38

rapidly reusable Starship rocket

27:39

enabling multiple launches per week and

27:41

successfully commercializing data center

27:43

in space neither of these engineering

27:45

problems has been solved and we don't

27:47

expect them until at least 2028. Okay.

27:50

In our most optimistic moonshot

27:52

scenario, the company would be worth

27:54

$154 a share. That's 14% above the

27:57

offering price and level the shares

27:59

might even reach in the shorter term

28:00

after the public launch. Da da da da da.

28:03

So, uh, we give this a seven% chance of

28:07

happening. So this is their analysis and

28:09

then they walk through their building

28:11

blocks for a fair value estimate

28:15

and then um you know they basically give

28:18

their analysis of how much they sp this

28:20

sounds so similar to Tesla you know the

28:23

car business is worth all of this but

28:25

all the other businesses I'll give it

28:27

very tiny little tiny almost zero

28:29

amounts right so

28:31

>> I mean I don't even want to lie like

28:33

when I do my modeling like I am a DCF

28:36

person. I believe the the way to value

28:39

any business is through discounted

28:42

future cash flow models because that's

28:45

the only way to do it intelligently

28:47

because it allows you to see or to model

28:50

what do I believe will happen in the

28:52

future and at what time in the future at

28:54

what discount rate then you put in your

28:56

things and then you get it. Nearly none

28:59

of these analysts do that. They all do

29:02

multiplebased

29:03

right they say well this industry has

29:05

this multiple and this is might be the

29:07

evident and and that doesn't work if you

29:09

have a disruptive company you need to

29:11

actually model out what's likely to

29:12

happen so I would like to see their

29:14

model and see where they get to but for

29:16

our viewers the important message is

29:18

that is exactly why

29:21

like most investors are not that smart

29:23

in the market who are like some are very

29:25

smart but the majority is not that like

29:27

they're not paying attention that's why

29:30

I'm saying despite believing that

29:33

spacing is very likely extremely

29:34

undervalued at two trillion that the

29:37

stock will drop because you will have

29:41

this period of time where they don't do

29:43

these things in 2026. They won't they

29:46

won't launch any orbit satellites

29:48

obviously. They will do it mid of 2027

29:50

or something and then we'll be a little

29:51

bit. So you need to have your simulator

29:54

head on and be right. That's fine. I

29:57

think I I am right. But everyone else is

29:59

not going to do that. And then we will

30:01

have FUD attacks like these guys and

30:04

they will be more serious severe once

30:07

the stock shows weakness because this is

30:10

more like a lions or something. It's not

30:12

rational. They say, "Oh, it's a weak

30:14

deer. Let's all say it's it's it's bad."

30:18

And that it's a purely tactical

30:21

opportunistic perspective that I have on

30:23

the short term. I just think the odds

30:26

that this thing goes above two trillion

30:27

is very high short short term after IPO.

30:30

And the odds that it drops to probably

30:32

1.5 trillion is also extremely high

30:35

before in by December. Now I would never

30:39

short this thing because you I mean

30:40

there are million rabbits in the hat,

30:42

right? I mean terrestrial compute they

30:44

might close more deals colossuses. I

30:46

mean this is an insane company. So you

30:48

have to be don't short it. I'm just

30:50

saying I don't need to buy it right now.

30:53

So because morning star these people

30:56

they will come out again and say stupid

30:58

things and then if the market is a

31:00

little weak and scared people get

31:02

scared. So you know how I think about

31:05

forcing functions. The reinforcing

31:08

function will be stalling once it's

31:10

bigger because it's still too small to

31:11

really move the needle. It has to grow a

31:13

little bit more to really push the cash

31:15

flow towards this valuation which is

31:17

obvious it will but still and then

31:20

orbiti right now for weak minds is like

31:23

well it doesn't exist so

31:26

this will all take 18 months or

31:28

something before it's undeniably

31:32

much more valuable than it is at two

31:34

trillion. And so these 18 months are a

31:37

high-risk phase especially the middle of

31:39

these 18 months right so December that's

31:41

I think the main the the the key weak

31:45

weak spot of SpaceX will be probably

31:48

August to January or something that's

31:50

where I have the most air gap concerns

31:53

from a market psychology perspective

31:55

that people really

31:56

>> I think it's the mo the weakest would be

31:58

December to June of next year and the

32:01

reason is that from now till December

32:04

there's a lot of uh stairst step

32:06

shareholders able to sell but then

32:08

there's the IPOs that are the indexes

32:11

able to buy. Now unfortunately S&P said

32:15

we're not going to allow uh any changes

32:18

in our system so that we can let SpaceX

32:21

go be included in the S&P until

32:23

December. Initially everybody thought

32:25

that they were going to change it so

32:26

that they'll be included in December.

32:27

Now it's not till June next year. Maybe

32:29

if that's the case that December to June

32:32

there's no no massive index buying then

32:36

and that's where I think you're right

32:37

there's they're not going to have

32:38

anything to show there's no AI data

32:40

center yet

32:41

>> actually I would say between let's say

32:43

somewhere between July and July I I

32:47

think more in 2026 and 2027 but maybe

32:50

you're right because I think in two

32:52

because I think this whole AI story is

32:54

just going to be exponentially more

32:55

insane

32:57

>> even end of the Well, they have to

32:58

prove. So when is the very first AI data

33:02

satellite going to go up?

33:04

>> If they do it in January, February,

33:06

March of next year, then okay, they can

33:08

save it, right?

33:09

>> But if that's all delayed, which is of

33:13

course Tesla, we have the Tesla

33:15

situation that is also like the merger

33:18

situation and Tesla has robo taxi and

33:20

Optimus. So I mean this is a highly

33:22

complicated question. I'm just saying um

33:24

>> yeah, we don't know,

33:25

>> you know, on a pure SpaceX level. I see

33:28

let's say the the peak weakness

33:30

probability is December and then going

33:34

from there like it might be March next

33:36

year or maybe October this year who

33:39

knows but you know it's between the IPO

33:43

and one year later where it will look

33:44

very strong. That's what I think in June

33:47

2027 going forward it will start looking

33:50

>> in between it's going to go up and down

33:51

and maybe even fall lower than the price

33:53

the stock price. Yeah. Okay. interesting

33:56

times. But I mean, I think I can't even

33:58

I'm getting too excited about this

34:00

stuff. But I think the level of insanity

34:03

we are entering into as a civilization

34:05

is cannot be overstated. This is nuts.

34:09

Like if you go on claw design, claw

34:12

code, codeex, all these things and see

34:14

what these things can do and see the

34:16

incremental improvement month by month

34:18

and then you understand whatever

34:20

happens. We already beyond AGI in my

34:23

opinion potential, right? if you build

34:24

the harness and everything and then you

34:26

understand this is all about compute

34:28

because if even if if even if these

34:30

things only have an IQ of 130 or

34:32

something right now and would stop with

34:35

infinite compute you would have infinite

34:38

130 IQ brains in like billions do you

34:41

know what that does

34:41

>> even just that is enough is good enough

34:43

to change the world as to what you're

34:45

saying

34:45

>> so it's really about compute and then

34:47

you connect the dots there is just no

34:49

scenario where SpaceX does not get us to

34:52

infinity compute It's just the time. Is

34:55

it 2027 where this all starts or 2028?

34:57

This when you think about what that

35:00

means, that's such a ridiculous

35:01

question. Like, who cares if it's one

35:03

year delayed and it won't be one year.

35:05

>> Starship success is what what is really

35:08

banks on. Wow. Thank you so much, Joe.

35:10

Thank you for uh giving us that feedback

35:13

and insight. Follow Joe on his uh

35:16

website, pioneerlands.org.

35:18

Thanks, everybody.

35:19

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35:21

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Interactive Summary

The video discusses the upcoming SpaceX IPO, highlighting the massive scale of the 'Terra Fab' project, which is designed to be 10 times larger than Tesla's Giga Texas, and the development of AI-capable satellites. Experts analyze the potential of these innovations while also weighing concerns regarding market hype, valuation, and the technical timeline for achieving full reusability of the Starship rocket to enable these ambitious space-based data centers.

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