Tesla, xAI and SpaceX chart a course for Terafab, a new venture in galactic infrastructure towards becoming a galactic civilization.

The 80% orbital compute allocation is the buried lede here — if Musk actually executes on space-based AI inference at scale, it reprices every terrestrial GPU cloud and data center REIT overnight, which is why the SpaceX IPO timing is no coincidence. The Battery Day 4680 parallel is the obvious bear case (still at ~2% of promised volume six years later), and building a 2nm fab from zero experience when TSMC burned $165B on Arizona alone is a timeline that doesn't survive contact with reality. For the crypto-adjacent crowd: this is essentially a play to vertically integrate the entire compute stack from silicon to orbit — think of it as trying to own the validator set, the block production, AND the DA layer of the physical AI economy, which means $TSLA is increasingly trading as a leveraged call option on Musk's ability to ship hardware at scale rather than anything resembling an auto manufacturer.

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