Musk's 2025 Misses: Tesla Robotaxi Delays, xAI Data Center Buys, and Starlink's 9M Users
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Musk's 2025 Misses: Tesla Robotaxi Delays, xAI Data Center Buys, and Starlink's 9M Users
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Elon Musk wrapped up 2025 with a mix of bold visions and harsh realities hitting his empire. Electrek tallies his top five Tesla predictions that fizzled: no 20 to 30 percent EV growth as deliveries dropped to 1.64 million vehicles amid global sales surges; robotaxi dreams scaled back from covering half the US population to just 60 units in Austin; a hyped mind-blowing Roadster demo vanished, now eyed for 2026; Tesla Semi volume production kicked to next year; and Optimus robots fell short of thousands in factories, sticking to teleop basics like handing out water. Teslarati reports Musk and AI director Ashok Elluswamy tested unsupervised Robotaxis in Austin on Christmas Eve, with Musk praising perfect drives sans safety monitor from the passenger seat, hinting at imminent no-occupant ops after his xAI hackathon tease of three-week rollouts.
Starlink soared, SpaceX announcing over nine million users across 155 markets, adding 21,000 daily since November per their X post, Gwynne Shotwell cheering the milestone as Musks biggest revenue driver amid IPO buzz. xAI snapped up an 810,000-square-foot Southaven facility near Memphis for its third data center, ramping compute to two gigawatts according to the Memphis Business Journal. Politically feisty, Musk slammed Bernie Sanders as a taker on X while dubbing himself a maker, Fox Business notes. He joined Netanyahu on a call discussing AI boosts and autonomous vehicle laws for Israel, accepting an invite to their March 2026 Smart Transportation Conference, as shared by the PM on X and Jerusalem Post. In a late December 30 X Spaces chat captured by YouTuber Jacob Hilton, Musk bantered briefly on 2026 narrative engineering ahead of midterms before dashing to Tesla meetings. AInvest flags unusual Tesla options frenzy on December 30 with 378 trades split bullish and bearish, fueling volatility bets amid Robotaxi delays and lofty valuations. No major public appearances, but these moves cement Musks pivot to AI and space as Tesla stumbles.
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