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  Shares of SpaceX and Tesla slipped in premarket trading Wednesday, down about 3.8% and 3.5%, after Democrats won a major victory in the midterm elections. Musk had spent $224 million in Texas backing Republican candidates, but Republican Senate nominee Ken Paxton and Gov. Greg Abbott lost, and Democrat Gina Hinojosa was projected to win the governorship over Abbott. AI stocks were mixed: CoreWeave fell 2.6%, Iren 2.8% and Oracle 1.3%, while Nvidia, Alphabet, Meta, Amazon and Microsoft rose about 1-2% and AMD jumped 6.8%. Wells Fargo said 27% of planned data center gigawatts are in Texas, and Hinojosa has backed a moratorium on AI data centers; the bank called a Democratic win there a potential “left-tail event” for the AI trade.

  CNBC·04/11, 10:24▼ TSLATSLAElon Muskmidterm elections
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• Elon Musk Says Neoclouds Face a "Guppy Level" Death. IREN Is Down 64% From Its High. Is He Talking About This Stock?

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• Neocloud stocks fall as Elon Musk says more than 200 of them face 'guppy-level death'

  Shares of Nebius, CoreWeave and Iren fell more than 4% in premarket trading after Elon Musk said on X that more than 200 companies in the sector could collapse. Musk said debt markets have almost entirely shut off funding for firms without substantial revenue independent of AI data centers, and that the 200+ neoclouds face "guppy-level death and consolidation." He was replying to Chamath Palihapitiya, who warned of partially stranded compute in 2027. Over the past month, CoreWeave and Nebius have fallen more than 30% and Iren has tanked 40%, after the spread on CoreWeave's five-year credit default swaps reached levels generally viewed as signs of distress.

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  CoinDesk·26/10, 03:11▲ NVDASpaceXElon Muskartificial intelligence
• SpaceX closes $40 billion debt deal for AI chips, Elon Musk says

  Elon Musk said SpaceX has closed $40 billion in debt financing to buy GPUs for AI systems, adding that the company is investment grade and earns revenue from Starlink and rocket launches. He said the financing, mainly callable debt for GPUs, is expected to arrive in the first and second quarters of 2027. Bloomberg reported that the debt was structured through a special purpose vehicle to keep it off SpaceX's balance sheet and preserve its investment-grade ratings, with Goldman Sachs leading talks with investors including Apollo Global Management. SpaceX's AI business, which it calls ‘Super Intelligence’ (SI), is now its largest unit, with third-quarter revenue surging ninefold to $7.56 billion from $813 million a year earlier. Musk also predicted that more than 200 neocloud companies would face widespread failures and consolidation, as debt markets have largely shut off financing for firms without substantial revenue outside AI data centers.

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