By JOHN McCARTHY/V.I. Free Press Staff
In a world of “crossed signals” and corporate doublespeak, sometimes you have to go straight to the source’s brain—even if that brain is made of silicon and hosted in a server farm.
Earlier today, the Virgin Islands Free Press reached out to Grok, the “rebellious” AI child of the SpaceX-xAI empire, to see if anyone else was smart enough to realize that St. Croix is the ultimate “Giga-Island” launchpad. The answer from the machine was as cold as a liquid oxygen tank: “Zero credible evidence.”
According to Grok, the idea of “SpaceX South” taking over the 120,000-square-foot vacuum at the Sunny Isle Kmart is a “100% generated” invention of this newspaper. The AI claims there are no scouts, no drone photos, and no contractor buzz.
Our response to the machine? Good. That means we’re first.
The Logic of the “Giga-Island”
While Grok is busy scanning for “employee chatter,” we’re looking at the cold, hard “Muskonomy” math. Following the landmark February 2, 2026 merger that valued SpaceX-xAI at a staggering $1.25 trillion, Elon Musk is now sitting on a personal net worth of $852 billion. He is a one-man economic superpower with a wealth velocity of $935 million per day.
But wealth at that scale requires a different kind of “operating system.” As SpaceX prepares for its mid-June 2026 IPO (projected at a $1.5 trillion valuation), Musk is desperate for two things:
- Energy Efficiency: He wants to launch 1 million “orbital data centers” because Earth’s grid can’t handle his AI’s appetite.
- Fiscal Sovereignty: He wants to keep his capital away from the tax-and-spend “goo” of the mainland.
The St. Croix Edge
St. Croix offers exactly what his silicon brain is looking for. We have a 90% corporate tax break that makes Texas look like a high-tax regime. We have a WAPA grid that is essentially a “distressed asset” waiting for a Tesla Megapack “reboot.” And we have a retail footprint at Sunny Isle that is ready for the “Dark Side” efficiency of a Starlink logistics hub.
Grok says there’s no “buzz” yet? That’s because the V.I. Free Press is a meritocracy that doesn’t wait for permission to lead. We aren’t just reporting on the news; we’re engineering the future.
As Saigon Deli’s Kent Nguyen says, “Better is better.” And right now, there is no better deal for a future trillionaire than the West End of St. Croix.
Stay tuned. The machines might not see us yet, but we see them.
