Musk says an AI1 prototype will be issued in early 2027, space compute will surge to 1GW by the end of the year, and that orbit data centers are “not something far away.” Is that crazy? Of course. But the logic behind Goldman calling for $220 and Citigroup looking for $900 since the IPO was never “how much it will earn this year.” Instead, it’s about how much the capital market is willing to pay for audacious, falsifiable ideas—using cross-period discounting. SpaceX has taken the ball to the frontier of whether “space compute” can convert the market’s dream multiple into EBITDA. The next shot isn’t CPI—it’s whether the batches of satellites in 2027 truly can power on.
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