Elon Musk warned on X that debt markets have largely stopped lending to companies without sizable revenue beyond AI data centers, and predicted that most of the more than 200 neoclouds will fail or be absorbed by others. SpaceX (SPCX) said it closed $40 billion in debt to buy GPUs, citing its investment-grade credit and revenue from Starlink and launch. Its super intelligence segment generated $7.56 billion of the company's $14.58 billion third-quarter revenue and made $431 million at the operating level in the quarter, even after $1.2 billion in stock-based pay linked to the Cursor deal. Management forecasts fourth-quarter capital spending of $35 billion to $40 billion, and the payback from new GPUs depends on rental prices staying high. The stock, at around $147, is about 30% below its June 16 closing high of $211.39, and the author says Musk's warning does not change his view, while the stock at about 34 times sales is not cheap at today's price.
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