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by comboy 5 days ago
plus $473 per second from Anthropic

> As part of that deal, Anthropic agreed to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through 2029 to rent all the available compute from its Colossus 1 data center near Memphis, Tennessee, that xAI — now part of SpaceX — originally built for its own artificial intelligence efforts.

I don't get why SpaceX is going public. But anyway, well played, the whole crypto mining that dried out GPUs back in the day seems tiny now.

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> I don't get why SpaceX is going public.

Liquidity for investors. They raised everything they could from private markets, government contract, debt, the remaining source of financing is from the public