Google to pay SpaceX $920 million monthly for AI compute hardware
Key takeaways
- Space X has announced a massive new compute deal with Google just ahead of its historic initial public offering (IPO).
- This deal mirrors the scope and length of a previous agreement with Anthropic.
- Google’s deal appears to cover about half the compute capacity that Anthropic accesses at Colossus 1.
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Space X has announced a massive new compute deal with Google just ahead of its historic initial public offering (IPO). Disclosed in a regulatory filing on Friday, the agreement stipulates that Google will pay Space X $920 million per month from October 2026 to June 2029 for access to approximately 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, CPUs, memory, and related hardware.
This deal mirrors the scope and length of a previous agreement with Anthropic. That AI firm is currently paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through 2029 to rent all compute capacity at the Colossus 1 data center near Memphis, which was originally built by xAI and is now officially part of SpaceX.