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2026-10-20 20:40 [Industry Trend] [SRC↗]

SpaceX Returns to Profitability as AI Business Becomes Majority of Income

SpaceX reported $14.6 billion in quarterly revenue, with its renamed 'Super Intelligence' segment, which includes Grok, the acquired Cursor coding tool, and a 1.7 GW neocloud compute business, now making up 52% of income...

[xAI] [Compute Scaling] [Grok] [SpaceX] [orbital data centers]

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2026-08-21 14:00 [Industry Trend] [SRC↗]

Starcloud Adds $250M to Build Orbital AI Data Centers, With Nvidia Backing

Starcloud, a startup building satellites that run AI inference in orbit, raised a $250 million extension to its Series A at a $2.3 billion valuation, with participation from Nvidia and Cisco. The funds will expand manufa...

[Compute Scaling] [Nvidia GPUs] [orbital data centers] [AI inference] [spacex starship]

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2026-05-12 17:30 [Industry Trend] [SRC↗]

Google and SpaceX Explore Orbital Data Centers for AI Computing

Google and SpaceX are reportedly in discussions to launch data centers into orbit, potentially revolutionizing AI compute infrastructure. SpaceX is positioning orbital data centers as a cost-effective solution for AI wor...

[AI Infrastructure] [Google] [Compute Scaling] [SpaceX] [orbital data centers]

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2026-02-05 18:50 [Industry Trend] [SRC↗]

SpaceX and xAI Merge to Pursue Orbital Data Center Network for AI Computing

SpaceX has filed plans with the FCC for a million-satellite data center network and formally merged with xAI, Elon Musk's AI venture, signaling serious intent to build orbital AI infrastructure. Musk argues that solar pa...

[xAI] [Compute Scaling] [SpaceX] [orbital data centers] [satellite infrastructure]

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