The June 15 brief defends the gas turbines used by a giant data center belonging to the trillionaire's company xAI, which are the target of an environmental lawsuit.
The number "one trillion" is hard in itself for the human mind to comprehend. One trillion dollars is a thousand times greater than $1 billion. And a million times more than $1 million.
Musk says SpaceX is going public now because it needs money to fund its ambitions of putting satellites and data centers in space and eventually establishing a colony of people on Mars.
With what could be the largest-ever IPO, valued at $75 billion, Musk -- already the world's richest man -- could become the first person to achieve trillionaire status.
Musk and Cook will be accompanied by 15 other chief executive officers, including the chiefs of Boeing, GE Aerospace, Citi, Goldman Sachs, Mastercard and Visa.