SpaceX: The AI IPO Wearing a Spacesuit

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If one were to build a word cloud of what the average investor associates with SpaceX, it would look something like: rockets, Elon Musk, Starlink, Mars. Somewhere in there, in a small font, you’d find xAI. SpaceX is seen, after all, as the ultimate space play. The numbers, on the other hand, tell a different story. Goldman Sachs, the lead underwriter of the upcoming IPO, projects that xAI will represent over two-thirds of the combined company’s business by 2030. Make no mistake: the anticipated debut of SpaceX is an AI IPO wearing a spacesuit.

Three and a half years since ChatGPT launched, one thing is clear: AI needs staggering amounts of physical infrastructure.

The $300 Billion Capex Cycle

Not surprisingly, the numbers involved in what is shaping to be the largest IPO in history are eye-watering. Goldman Sachs expects SpaceX to scale its revenue from $18.7 billion in 2025 to $474 billion in 2030. For that, the company is expected to spend over $300 billion in capital expenditures by the end of the decade.

Transforming xAI and its AI assistant, Grok, into the dominant engine of a $1.75 trillion business will send billions flowing directly into the broader technology ecosystem. For investors looking to capture this infrastructure boom without taking on single-stock concentration risk, the ROBO Global Artificial Intelligence ETF (THNQ) offers a structural approach.

Semiconductors and Connectivity

Because training frontier AI models requires massive, centralized computing power, the most immediate beneficiaries of this capex boom are the infrastructure vendors. Outfitting a mammoth data center like xAI’s Colossus to a gigawatt scale requires a massive volume of processors and memory architecture. While the winner of the AI software wars won’t be known for some time, semiconductor designers like Advanced Micro Devices and connectivity leaders like Astera Labs stand to collect a toll on every ounce of compute capacity that SpaceX…

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