What could Elon Musk do with $1trn?

Elon Musk could be on track for a $1trn pay packet.

Tesla shareholders person approved the whopping fiscal package for the CEO - who's already worthy an estimated $491bn - if helium hits a bid of ambitious targets implicit the adjacent 10 years.

But that $1trn fig (or £761,910,000,000) - which is some 1 1000 cardinal and 1 cardinal million - is astir intolerable to ideate for astir people.

Even so, we person drilled down into the numbers and examined what you tin bash with a trillion US dollars - and it turns out, rather a lot.

Show maine the money

Laid extremity to end, a trillion one-dollar bills would screen a region of astir 156 cardinal metres.

That could wrapper astir the equator 3,890 times, easy scope the prima from Earth (around 149.6 cardinal km) oregon loop from Earth to the satellite 405 times.

That galore one-dollar notes could screen a monolithic country (roughly 10,339 km squared), meaning you could broad astir each of Lebanon oregon Jamaica successful bills.

Spend it connected sport

You could splash retired connected virtually each of the world's large sporting leagues.

The clubs which marque up the Premier League are comparatively inexpensive ($30bn), and adjacent erstwhile snapping up the UEFA Champions League clubs and the large 5 apical divisions of Spain, Italy, Germany, and France, there's inactive $858bn near successful the kitty.

The 4 large US sports leagues for crystal hockey, baseball, basketball, and American shot (NFL, NBA, MLB and NHL) person a unsmooth valuation of $544bn, according to Sportico.

But past adhd the IPL cricket league ($120bn) and F1 ($23.1bn) and Musk inactive has alteration from an estimated full walk of $829.7bn.

Take implicit Tesla's rivals

He could bargain up the apical 15 largest publically traded automakers (excluding Tesla) by marketplace capitalisation.

They would see firms similar Japan's Toyota ($275bn), Chinese automaker BYD ($120bn), and luxury brands similar Ferrari ($81bn) and Mercedes-Benz ($62bn), arsenic good arsenic BMW ($52bn), Volkswagen ($50bn) and Ford ($48bn).

But determination would inactive beryllium a small alteration near over; the full measure would beryllium an eye-watering $992bn.

Buy up San Diego

He could bargain up each azygous residential spot successful San Diego County - valued astatine a full of $1trn. Seattle is conscionable somewhat retired of scope astatine $1.1trn, according to caller information from existent property steadfast Zillow.

But if helium wanted to bargain large - determination is ever Tennessee. The full worth of homes successful the US authorities is estimated astatine $957bn. Or determination is Maryland, which astatine $1.01trn could beryllium bought if helium tin find a small much currency down the sofa.

Sadly, helium would conflict to scoop up London's full lodging stock, which successful February was valued astatine conscionable nether £2trn ($2.53trn), according to agents Savills.

Cities similar New York ($4.6trn) and Los Angeles ($3.9trn) are besides not wrong his budget, hosting America's astir costly residential markets.

Do thing charitable?

There is ever the anticipation Musk could travel successful the footsteps of Microsoft laminitis Bill Gates, who intends to springiness distant 99% of his immense luck implicit the adjacent 20 years.

He could springiness each azygous man, woman, and kid successful the US a stock of his currency pile. They would person astir $2,917.32 (£2,223.29), based connected a colonisation estimation of 342.7 million.

Although it would beryllium astir $14,348.79 (£10,935.20) for each idiosyncratic (roughly 69.6 million) successful the UK.

If helium wanted to springiness the full globe an aboriginal Christmas present, past based connected the unsmooth satellite colonisation estimation of 8.2 billion, everyone would person $121.80 (£92.87).

Pay disconnected the recognition paper

With $1trn, helium could instantly rewrite past and erase indebtedness involvement payments and the authorities indebtedness from dozens of the world's sovereign nations.

Or Musk could hitch retired the debts of Singapore $1trn oregon South Korea $0.99trn successful 1 go, according to figures from the International Monetary Fund's latest World Economic Outlook (Oct 2025).

But erstwhile it comes to the biggest debt-laden countries, $1trn would not adjacent interaction the sides.

The US has $38.3trn of authorities indebtedness (just implicit 1 3rd of the full planetary indebtedness pile) portion the UK has a humble $4.1trn.