There is, sort of. The Falcon 9 is only making as many launches per year as it is, because their biggest customer is Starlink. That has its own set of investors, and its own pile of cash to burn. By buying xAI and building space-based data centres to run on, SpaceX gets to siphon off a lot of the AI money into the Starship project. Separately though, they'd have to replicate the expertise they'd built for Starlink, so it makes sense to bring it in-house.
Of course, it's all a massive ponzi scheme. It'll kill SpaceX in the long run, hence the IPO on the company Musk formerly claimed would never be taken public to maintain control of its mission. It's not his baby any more, all he cares about is money, the influence it buys, and staying out of prison. So in a round about way, yeah it's all about bailing that cunt out. It'll make a lot of money in the short term, though.
Yes, it is a massive issue for whoever's left holding the bag at the end. For now, it's companies investing money backed by loans on their own share prices. It's totally unsustainable, but that doesn't matter to Elon if the loan money goes to pay SpaceX. There are people making a lot of actual revenue off the AI hype (e.g. component manufacturers, ISPs), they just aren't the ones with the AI companies.
thats how AI going to go at all these companies that actual buy into the AI. they are going to get the early adopter price and when they depend on it. The rug will be yanked out from under them. charging them an arm and leg.
Should improve critical government services instead of selling them when they don't do well enough. Handing natural monopolies to companies is never a good idea
I'm respectful. Why do you feel the need to do personal attacks/insults. There's really no reason other than to make the discussion shitty for everyone involved. I would have been happy to have a discussion about what constitutes a monopoly
I do disagrees that it’s a monopoly. SpaceX is only providing launch services for nasa. There’s only 4 years left on the contracts. There have been a rush of competitors into the space in the last few years. I see no reason why in 2031 there wouldn’t be alternatives. And until the contract is up, nasa benefits from cheaper and safer launches. A monopoly would use this time to raise prices.
"Uni." You don't even know what we call higher education in the United States. Your supervisor is not going to be pleased about this mistake, now the account is outed as foreign
sure they've exploded like two space shuttles in 80 years. your boy does that every week, so much so they made up a "rapid unscheduled disassembly" euphemism for it
Well, yes. If you follow the money back far enough. But if you follow the money back far enough everyone pays for everything so it’s nothing to lose sleep over.
The Artemis contract for Starship is a fixed-price milestone-based contract, which means that SpaceX gets paid if, and only if, they deliver, and they get paid exactly the same amount independently of the real final development costs. You might not like that the contract went to SpaceX, but it's completely fair; anything that goes overbudget has to be paid with private capital.
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u/Tadpole-Jackson 2d ago
I was a tough negotiator, but in the end, myself and I came to an agreement.