What exactly is SpaceX's core business?
Smoking crack and investment fraud.
With a light sprinkling of space.
Its main business is connectivity. Starlink generated over 10B last year.
Becoming a broader infrastructure company with xAI.
Government contracts. Dumping its shares on retail investors. Selling compute to AI vendors
A datacenter that also provides connectivity/Internet
Elon Musk.
Their satellite internet business is the only thing which makes them money, which is enabled by their orbital launch business which is as of right now not profitable and I have no idea of if it ever will be but without it they would not be able to launch enough satellites.
Their stupidity with AI and buying X mostly seems to be about scamming investors to make Musk even richer. Like this particular deal is just them doing what CoreWeave does at a SpaceX valuation.