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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

But Nebius Group has been making waves too, inking deals with Meta and Microsoft in recent months worth tens of billions of dollars.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

Not having to pay billions of dollars to Musk in damages may help those odds.

From BBC • May 19, 2026

Pratt’s candidacy comes as many voters have grown frustrated over the lack of progress in cleaning up the streets despite billions of their dollars being spent to get people into shelters and permanent housing.

From Los Angeles Times • 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