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Brief: AI Compute Grows 180× While Prices Fall 96%
Aug 13, 2026
An interactive brief on the AI compute market from 2026–2040: use grows 180× while the price of a fixed unit of compute falls 96%, so annual infrastructure revenue rises to about $3.2T. It explores market pressure, orbital vs terrestrial cost routes, demand response, and why demand assumptions drive most of the outcome range.
AI Compute Keystone Model Download
Aug 13, 2026
The Mach33 AI Compute Model is a market-clearing model of the AI compute build-out from 2026 to 2040, expressed twice — as a 46-tab live-formula Excel workbook and as a Python engine — with every run comparing the two across 513 values, and all 400 assumptions living in a single write-point register that carries bear/base/bull bands, evidence tiers, and sources, including explicit "Mach33 judgment — no external source" labels. Rather than being learned tab by tab, the package is built to be handed to an LLM: point a session at the folder and it runs the model, builds counterfactuals, and answers in plain English with the basis stated, with an MCP connector to live Mach33 research coming next.
We modeled the AI compute market from 2026 to 2040 as one connected system: what a delivered unit of compute costs by build route, how demand responds as prices fall, and where new capacity actually gets built. The model treats orbital datacenters as a build route inside the same framework as terrestrial, tests every assumption across its full range, and stress-tests the story under thousands of simulated futures. This Premium article is a presentation of the key takeaways.
Aug 11, 2026
Eric Berger (Ars Technica senior space editor)says Neutron represents"a big step up from Electron" and that investors should set Neutron launch expectations at mid-2027 at the earliest, citing a pa...
Aug 11, 2026
Elon Musk said that Starlink has passed 13 million broadband subscribers across 167 countries, in a 29-minute recording SpaceX then posted publicly on X. He put Starlink Mobile at more than 22 mill...
Aug 10, 2026
Starship Flight 14, due end of August, is expected to be the vehicle'sfirst operational payload deployment mission.Unlike Flight 13, which deployed 20 functional V3 satellites on a suborbital traje...
Aug 06, 2026
SpaceXannounced a joint$16.8 billionfirst-phase investment inTerafab, a 100-million-square-foot semiconductor fabrication plant in Grimes County, Texas, creatingjobs. Texas extended a$30 million Te...
SpaceX's First Public Quarter: AI Segment EBITDA Turns Positive Two Years Ahead of Our Model
Aug 05, 2026
SpaceX's first quarter as a public company beat consensus revenue by 13.6%, and its AI segment turned EBITDA positive on $14.1 billion of contracted Cloud Services Agreements, two years earlier than our model assumed. We read the quarter against the Mach33 SpaceX Gigamodel, segment by segment, and record what we are revising.
Brief: The Radiation Tax
Aug 04, 2026
An interactive research brief on how radiation affects AI compute in low Earth orbit. At 550 km, a modeled 1,000-satellite fleet sees tens of thousands of daily glitches, but error correction and recovery software keep downtime to about 8 minutes a year — while shielding mass drives nearly all of the modeled ~$82k annual radiation cost per satellite.
Aug 04, 2026
SpaceX and the state of Louisiana are close to finalizing an agreement for roughly 130,000 acres of Vermilion Parish marshland at Pecan Island, with Gov. Jeff Landry expected to announce the deal l...
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