SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions
For the quarter ended June 30, total revenue reached $7.8 billion, up from $4.7 billion in the previous quarter. Connectivity revenue increased from $3.3 billion to $4.3 billion, while AI revenue jumped from $818 million to $2.6 billion. REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Capital expenditure jumped from $10.1 billion in the first quarter to $18.4 billion in the second, with AI infrastructure accounting for $15.8 billion.
- ▪For the quarter ended June 30, total revenue reached $7.8 billion, up from $4.7 billion in the previous quarter.
- ▪Connectivity revenue increased from $3.3 billion to $4.3 billion, while AI revenue jumped from $818 million to $2.6 billion.
- ▪REG AD googletag.cmd.push(function() { googletag.display('labrador/thereg/article/desktop/b'); }); Capital expenditure jumped from $10.1 billion in the first quarter to $18.4 billion in the second, with AI infrastructure accounting for $15.
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- ▪ SpaceX's AI ambitions burning through Starlink revenue — Hacker News (AI / LLM)
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(function() { let windowUrl = window.location.href; windowUrl = windowUrl.substring(windowUrl.indexOf('?') + 1); let messageElement = document.querySelector('.shareableMessage'); if (windowUrl && windowUrl.includes('code') && windowUrl.includes('expires')) { messageElement.style.display = 'block'; } })(); AI AND ML SpaceX revenue rockets while AI spending burns billions Investors balk as quarterly capex climbs to $18.4B Richard Speed Richard Speed MICROSOFT ECOSYSTEM REPORTER Published wed 5 Aug 2026 // 15:15 UTC SpaceX beat revenue forecasts in its first results as a public company, but surging AI expenditure and another quarterly loss left investors unimpressed.In unrelated but appropriately-timed space news, a discarded SpaceX rocket body is believed to have struck the Moon this…
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