In his latest interview, Musk outlined SpaceX's commercial vision for the next decade to the market: not only does he plan to deploy a "space AI data center" within two years to break the computing bottleneck on Earth, but he has also set an aggressive timetable of landing on the moon within three years and on Mars within five years.
Recently, in an interview program called "Sean Hannity Show" hosted by Texas Governor Greg Abbott, SpaceX founder Elon Musk revealed in detail the company's latest operational data, business layout, and vision for deep space exploration in the next decade.
As one of the most highly valued non listed companies in the world, SpaceX's actual business scale has always been a focus of market attention. At the beginning of the interview, Musk used a set of absolute data to highlight SpaceX's industry monopoly position. Currently, SpaceX has launched approximately 85% of the payload on Earth into orbit. ”
In addition to providing a high bandwidth, low latency Starlink network for the world and being the only certified US commercial manned spaceflight supplier by NASA, Musk has presented investors with a more ambitious and disruptive business story than traditional satellite launches.
Space computing power: Launch the first batch of AI satellites next year to break free from Earth's energy constraints
With the intensification of the global artificial intelligence arms race, land, electricity, and water resources are becoming physical bottlenecks restricting the expansion of data centers, and Musk has set his sights on outer space. This is the most informative part of the interview regarding market growth.
I think the real way to expand computing power is in space. There is a huge amount of space in space. ”Musk explained this business logic by saying, "If you look at the volume of the Earth relative to the Sun or the solar system, you will realize how tiny the Earth is. We can only receive five billionth of the Sun's energy. You can think of the Earth as a tiny speck of dust in the vast darkness
For the specific landing nodes of the space data center, Musk provided clear guidance: "In order to expand computing power without depleting Earth's land, we need to do it in space. This way, you don't need to consume space, electricity, and water on Earth. Therefore, we will launch the first batch of AI satellites next year and achieve large-scale deployment within about two years. ”
Full shareholding: Thousands of assembly line workers have become millionaires
Behind the rapid expansion of the company, SpaceX's equity incentive mechanism has also attracted market attention.
Previously, it was widely rumored that a welder earning $28 an hour became wealthy by holding company stocks. Musk not only confirmed this on the show, but also revealed a larger scale of wealth creation.
From day one, I have upheld the belief that every employee of the company should receive company stock so that they can share in the company's rising profits. ”Musk said, "When a company prospers, its employees also prosper. This is very beneficial for achieving a unified goal
He further demonstrated the company's wealth making ability to the market: "This is not just a story of welders. We have thousands of employees working on the production line who have become millionaires. If they had joined the company relatively early, their stock value may have exceeded one million dollars so far
Interstellar Colonization: 'Turning Science Fiction into Reality'
For the moon and Mars plans that the market is most concerned about, although Musk's schedule has been repeatedly postponed in the past, he once again gave extremely firm and aggressive performance guidance in this interview.
Regarding the construction of a lunar base, Musk expects to send the first batch of astronauts to the moon within two to three years at the earliest.
If everything goes smoothly, we may send the first batch of astronauts to the moon within 2 to 3 years and then rapidly expand from there. In about 10 years, there will be thousands of people on the moon. ”
His vision is not to build a simple scientific research station, but a fully functional city: "Ultimately, we want to transport thousands of tons of supplies to the moon, which is actually building a city on the moon. People can not only settle permanently, but even go on vacation. Imagine, 'Darling, we're not going to Singapore this year, let's go to the moon!' This will be an excellent honeymoon trip
For Mars colonization, which is much more difficult than the moon, Musk admitted that due to the fact that there is only one suitable launch window between Earth and Mars every 26 months, and the one-way journey takes 6 months, this greatly increases the challenge. But SpaceX still sets a tight timeline.
If everything goes smoothly, we can probably send the first batch of humans to Mars within 5 years. ”Musk made no secret of his ambition at the end of the interview, "Then we will significantly increase the number of spacecraft flying to Mars every two years. We hope to send thousands of people to Mars within 10 to 12 years. We want to turn what people see in science fiction into reality, rather than staying in fiction, and become a true space civilization that shuttles between stars
