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When SpaceX eventually goes public, most investors will think they understand the story …
- Rockets
- Launches
- Starlink
- Government contracts
- A better, cheaper way to get payloads into orbit.
All true, and all important.
But if you really want to understand where the biggest profits could come from, you need to look one layer deeper at something Elon Musk has been increasingly vocal about: putting data centers in space.
You see, Earth-based data centers are running into hard limits: power shortages, cooling constraints, land scarcity, and grid bottlenecks.
AI and crypto mining have turned data centers from passive infrastructure into energy-hungry beasts, and demand is accelerating faster than utilities can respond. Musk has openly said that compute and power are the true bottlenecks of the AI era, not chips. That’s the backdrop for why space-based data centers aren’t science fiction – they’re a logical next step.
Orbital Profits
In orbit, there are no power constraints, no need for expensive cooling systems, no competition for land, and no local permitting battles. It’s the perfect, and most logical environment to house data centers.
Now combine that with Starlink’s laser-linked satellite network and SpaceX’s unmatched launch economics, and you start to see the outline of something much bigger than telecommunications. What Musk is really building is the physical backbone for orbital computing – AI workloads processed in space and beamed back to Earth.
This is where the SpaceX IPO narrative flips.
The rockets aren’t the product, they’re the delivery system.
Starship isn’t just about Mars; it’s about lowering the cost of placing massive compute infrastructure into orbit at scale.
If SpaceX becomes the company that owns and operates the world’s first true space-based data centers, the revenue model shifts from launch fees to recurring, high-margin compute services. That’s when valuations stop looking like aerospace and start looking like cloud infrastructure.
And that’s why some of the biggest gains from a SpaceX IPO may not come from launch contracts or satellite subscriptions, but from owning the rails of the next generation of AI infrastructure.
Wall Street is still thinking in terms of rockets and satellites. Elon Musk is thinking in terms of energy, compute, and orbital real estate.
If he’s right – and his track record suggests he usually is – then data centers in space won’t be a side project.
They’ll be the real prize.
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