A first public earnings call targets 20 gigawatts and lunar robot factories

Claim

On SpaceX's first earnings call as a public company, revenue rose 92%, AI revenue rose 247% and capital spending quadrupled to $28.5 billion, with Musk targeting 20 gigawatts of power and cooling by the end of next year, daily Starship flights, and robot factories on the Moon feeding a mass accelerator.

Reported metric: +247% AI revenue / 20 GW

Reporting date: 2026-08-05 (not necessarily the event date)

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