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Aac20-001	Elon Musk Wants a Trillion-Dollar Payday, but Theres One Little Catch
	Quote:	I had no idea how big xAI had already gotten until the Wall Street Journal revealed Wednesday night that "SpaceX is renting out compute capacity across its two large data centers to Anthropic, for some 1.25 billion a month." And Anthropic is a rival.... In March, SpaceX awarded Musk more than 300 million shares. But those shares only vest when and if the company completes construction of its non-Earth-based data centers, including 12 market cap goals that add 6.6 trillion in shareholder value. Thats more than triple the best current estimate of SpaceXs worth. Thats not the big payout, however.
	Comment:	Pie in the Sky? Musk bets Big. I doubt he will win either bet, reach either goal. The technical challenges for economical Orbital AI are high. Will that survive the "AI Bubble" some investors are talking about? But the technical challenges for Man on Mars are astronomical. I seriously doubt he will see that in his lifetime. First, there is the radiation problem: High exposure on the trip and without a thick atmosphere, and high exposure on the surface, too. Are we willing to become tunnel rats living underground? Is terraforming Mars even possible? And even if we do, the low gravity makes retaining a millenium long earth-like atmosphere exceedingly difficult. But many of us hope humainty does become a multi-planet and then a multi-star species. That's a hefty motivation package! I hope he succeeds as it will be good for all humanity if he does.
	Article:	https://pjmedia.com/vodkapundit/2026/05/21/musk-trillion-dollar-payday-n4953095
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Elon Musk Wants a Trillion-Dollar Payday, but Theres One Little Catch