SpaceX says it has closed about $40 billion of financing for GPUs, in which an entity managed by Apollo will buy the chips and lease them to SpaceX under a finance lease, with leases starting in the first half of 2027. Musk called it debt, although the filing describes a finance lease, and said debt markets have almost entirely shut off money for companies without substantial revenue outside AI data centers. He predicted "guppy-level death and consolidation" among the more than 200 neoclouds, while noting SpaceX is investment grade with Starlink and launch revenue. CoreWeave's shares fell about 30%, from $87 to $61, between September 30 and October 16, and its unsecured bonds yielded about 15% in mid-October. Chamath Palihapitiya expects more idle AI computing power in 2027 than forecasts assume, making it a turbulent year.
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