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He argues we are only at the beginning of a decades-long space infrastructure boom worth hundreds of billions of dollars, from replacing aging satellites to building data centers in orbit.

From Barron's • May 20, 2026

The Elon Musk-led company filed an investor prospectus for a stock offering expected to raise potentially tens of billions of dollars as soon as mid-June.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 20, 2026

But it is very confident that the up-front investment would save the UK money in the long run, potentially tens of billions of pounds per year.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Nvidia isn’t exactly sitting on its cash, Wagner told MarketWatch in emailed comments, noting that the chip maker has committed tens of billions of dollars to strategic investments and capital deployments just this year.

From MarketWatch • May 19, 2026

The information in our genes is very old—most of it more than millions of years old, some of it billions of years old.

From "Cosmos" by Carl Sagan