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The thing is spacex's whole falcon 9 architecture needs something to do. They very quickly cleared the backlog of satellites waiting to launch and now they're waiting for space start ups to materialize and want to launch things into space. The majority of falcon 9 launches now only launch starlink. It'll get even worse if they can make starship work, they'll have a huge capacity with nothing to put in it. Ai data centers in space are an attempt at justifying the entire concept of starship or at the very least employ the falcon 9 team.
This and spacex going public tell me the return on investment of a space based internet provider maybe isn't profitable enough to fund a rocket development program. Their big cash cow, being the ISS taxi, is winding down and now they're looking for suckers with money.
If starship works (huge if) the markets it can open will be very different than the markets Falcon9 opened.
Something will need to develop around the new capabilities to use beyond their own use for starlink, but its going to be much easier for companies to come up with uses for it.
They make most of their money off starlink now, not ISS.
Send Musk to Mars.