A pay package is tied to delivering 100 terawatts of compute from space

Claim

SpaceX approved a plan granting Elon Musk sixty million additional shares if its market capitalization climbs from $1.1 to $6.6 trillion while delivering a hundred terawatts of compute per year from space data centers, orders of magnitude beyond peak US power consumption.

Reported metric: 100 TW/yr

Reporting date: 2026-04-27 (not necessarily the event date)

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• Welcome to April 27, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)