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Elon Musk’s SpaceX officially kicked off its march to Wall Street on Wednesday, filing the S-1 paperwork required for its hotly anticipated IPO.<\/p>\n

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Although the S-1 didn’t reveal key figures investors are waiting on \u2014 such as SpaceX’s estimated stock value and anticipated public share price \u2014 it did offerthe first close-up look at the financial details and strategies behind Musk’s rocket company and AI business, xAI.<\/p>\n

Here are the biggest takeaways from the filing.<\/p>\n

There’s an incentive to build a ‘human colony’<\/h2>\n

Making life “multiplanetary” is at the forefront of SpaceX’s mission, and Musk has a massive financial incentive to make it so: 1 billion shares of SpaceX.<\/p>\n

The filing shows that, among market-cap milestones, SpaceX will have to establish a “permanent human colony on Mars with at least one million inhabitants” for Musk to access the package.<\/p>\n

Musk will also still have to be employed by SpaceX at the time of this milestone achievement, and the shares would be split into 15 tranches.<\/p>\n

Still, it’s a highly unusual compensation trigger for an otherwise not normal IPO.<\/p>\n

Musk’s pay package could be worth up to $737B<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Musk could get a hefty payday if he builds interplanetary cities and orbital data centers.<\/p>\n

Based on the implied share count in the filing, Musk’s two performance awards could be worth roughly $737 billion if fully vested.<\/p>\n

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That includes about $583 billion from the one-billion share award that vests if SpaceX reaches a $7.5 trillion market cap and establishes a permanent Mars colony. It also includes about $154 billion from a separate award of about 302 million shares tied to orbital data centers that deliver 100 terawatts of compute a year, along with a SpaceX market-cap milestone of about $6.6 trillion.<\/p>\n

Anthropic is paying a lot for SpaceX’s compute<\/h2>\n

Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month through May 2029 for access to the rocket company’s compute capacity, the filing showed. That’s about $15 billion in revenue coming from Anthropic.<\/p>\n

The compute refers to SpaceX’s Colossus and Colossus II, massive supercomputers and data centers designed for training AI.<\/p>\n

The filing said the agreement for cloud and compute services begins in May 2026.<\/p>\n

Musk has massive voting power<\/strong><\/h2>\n

Voting rights in stocks mean each share owned gives the shareholder one vote on eligible matters. The S-1 revealed that Musk, who serves as the company’s chief executive, Chief Technical Officer, and Chairman of the board, holds 85.1% of the combined voting power on company matters, based on his 5,569,053,075 shares.<\/p>\n

Grok’s CapEx was higher than Starship’s<\/strong><\/h2>\n

“For the three months ended March 31, 2026, capital expenditures for our Space segment was $1,052 million, for our Connectivity segment was $1,332 million and for our AI segment was $7,723 million,” the S-1 reads.<\/p>\n

That means spending on xAI’s projects, like Grok, was higher than SpaceX’s rocket division’s spending, which includes its Super Heavy and Starship rockets.<\/p>\n

The numbers were starker in 2025, with the Space segment spending $3,832 million and the AI segment spending $12,727 million, according to the filing.<\/p>\n

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