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  "disclaimer": "Analysis and opinion, not investment advice.",
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  "question": "SpaceX after the IPO: exit liquidity, or the next ten-bagger?",
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              "claim": "Retail buyers of the SpaceX IPO are the exit liquidity: the fancy name for paying insiders, VCs and early investors at peak hype valuations.",
              "date": "2026-06-08",
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              "name": "Jeremie Eliahou Ontiveros",
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              "claim": "Selling frontier-model inference is extraordinarily profitable: on a GB300 cluster, OpenAI and Anthropic can generate over 100 billion dollars per gigawatt-year of revenue against roughly 12 billion of rental cost.",
              "date": "2026-08-07",
              "url": "https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/spacex-10gw-in-2027-why-its-real",
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              "claim": "SpaceX is on track to build about 10 gigawatts of datacenter capacity by year-end 2027; independent site-by-site evaluation supports the guided 6 to 8 incremental gigawatts, implying a path to 300 billion dollars of ARR with only half the…",
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