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SpaceX AI revenue hits $7.5B, now majority of income
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- →SpaceX's AI revenue now exceeds its space business, marking a fundamental shift in the company's economic focus.
- →The $7.5B segment revenue validates the massive capital expenditure on neocloud infrastructure and compute capacity.
- →Musk's claim of faster infrastructure deployment via aerospace manufacturing techniques could disrupt traditional data center build-out timelines.
SpaceX reported $14.6 billion in third-quarter revenue, with its newly named 'Super Intelligence' segment contributing $7.5 billion and becoming the majority of the company's income. The AI division generated $431 million in profit, bolstered by a neocloud boasting 1.7 GW of compute capacity and recent acquisitions including Cursor. CEO Elon Musk emphasized that infrastructure constraints like power and cooling are now the primary bottlenecks for AI deployment, not chip availability. Despite $19.6 billion in capital expenditures for data centers and Starship development, SpaceX returned to net profitability with $4.4 billion in income.
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