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otterleytoday at 4:00 AM0 repliesview on HN

It’s not “black magic” to sell excess GPU capacity to third parties to make a profit. This is a legitimate business venture. It’s just not the business that people naturally expect a business with a name of Space Exploration Technologies to be making the most revenue from.

They’re in good company, competing with Amazon, CoreWeave, Google, Microsoft, Nebius, and many other players for the same business. They just invested (through the X.ai acquisition) in more capacity than they could take advantage of to get there.

Even if they manage to make a profit selling this capacity to Google, Anthropic, and others, it might not be enough to push them into profitability as a whole. That remains to be seen, and you keep asserting without evidence that it is true.