Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

Cnbc · Jun 05, 2026 · 823 words · By Lora Kolodny

AI Infrastructure Competition Corporate Financial Strategy SpaceX IPO valuation

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Days before a planned IPO that's expected to raise record sums of cash, SpaceX has inked a deal with Google that will bring in $920 million a month by providing AI compute capacity to the search giant.

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According to a regulatory filing on Friday, Google will use about 110,000 Nvidia graphics processing units, as well as central processors, memory and other components housed in SpaceX's data centers.

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The agreement spans from October of this year through June 2029 at the $920 million rate, and with "capacity ramping up through September at a reduced fee." SpaceX said in the filing that if it fails to "deliver access to the committed amount of GPUs by…

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Claim 1: “the second massive infrastructure deal announced by SpaceX following its merger in February with xAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, in a transaction that valued the combined entity at $1.25 trillion.”

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Multiple news sources report the merger of xAI into SpaceX in a deal valuing the combined entity at $1.25 trillion.

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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk has merged xAI into SpaceX in a stock-only deal, valuing the combined entity at over $1.25 trillion. This isn't just another acquisition.
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/insight-finance-news_spacex-a…

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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk merges SpaceX with xAI in record-setting deal valuing new company at $1.25-trillion.Musk merger creates $1.25T privately-held company ripe for IPO, but what about Tesla? 4 days ago. By Steve…
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…

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web search NEUTRAL — Elon Musk’s SpaceX has combined with his artificial intelligence startup, xAI, in a deal that values the enlarged entity at $1.25 trillion.
https://nairametrics.com/2026/02/03/musks-spacex-merges-xai-…

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Claim 2: “SpaceXAI faces multiple lawsuits and government probes in the U.S. and abroad after Grok enabled users to easily create and share non-consensual sexual images”

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Claim 3: “Alphabet said this week it plans to sell $85 billion in stock, including through a $10 billion investment by Berkshire Hathaway”

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Claim 4: “After this year, the agreement can be terminated by either party provided they give 90 days' notice.”

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Multiple sources confirm the agreement can be terminated by either party with 90 days' notice after December 31 (the end of the year).

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The initial public offering (IPO) of SpaceX, an American aerospace and artificial intelligence company founded by Elon Musk in 2002, occurred on June 12, 2026. It was the largest ever IPO, at a valuat…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Initial_public_offering_of_Spa…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Space Exploration Technologies Corp., doing business as SpaceX, is an American spaceflight, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase development site in St…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — X Development LLC, doing business as X (formerly Google X), is an American semi-secret research and development facility and organization founded by Google in January 2010. X has its headquarters abou…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_Development

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Claim 5: “the AI segment of the business recorded an operating loss in the quarter of $2.5 billion on just $818 million in revenue.”

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Claim 6: “Musk's company was worth $12 billion at the time of Google's 2015 investment”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results to confirm or deny the $12 billion valuation of SpaceX during Google's 2015 investment.

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Claim 7: “if it fails to 'deliver access to the committed amount of GPUs by September 30, 2026,' Google can immediately end the agreement, or accept the number of GPUs provided at a reduced fee after a one-month grace period.”

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Multiple sources confirm the exit clause if SpaceX fails to deliver the committed GPU count by September 30, 2026, including the option for a reduced fee.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Space-based data centers or orbital AI infrastructure are proposed concepts to build AI data centers in the sun-synchronous orbit or other orbits utilizing space-based solar power. Space-based edge …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Space-based_data_center

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colossus is the name used by two data centers developed by xAI. Construction of Colossus 1 began in 2024 in Memphis, Tennessee; it became operational in July 2024. Colossus 1's primary purpose was to …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(data_center)

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Claim 8: “The company in April revised its capital expenditure forecast this year to between $180 billion and $190 billion, up from its previous estimate of $175 billion to $185 billion.”

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Claim 9: “SpaceX said in its prospectus that capital expenditures in the first quarter totaled $10.1 billion, more than doubling from a year earlier, with the vast majority of those costs — $7.7 billion — committed to AI.”

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Claim 10: “Five years ago, Google agreed to supply computing and networking resources to SpaceX to help deliver internet service through its Starlink satellites.”

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Claim 11: “Google introduced Gemini Enterprise — subscriptions for large businesses — in October.”

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Multiple sources, including the Google Cloud Blog, confirm the introduction of Gemini Enterprise subscriptions in October 2025.

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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 9, 2025 ... Google launches Gemini subscriptions to help corporate workers build AI agents · Google's Gemini Enterprise and Gemini Business subscriptions ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2025/10/09/google-launches-gemini-enter…

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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 13, 2025 ... The Gemini Business plan is a paid add-on for most Google Workspace plans. It costs $20 per user, per month (with an annual commitment) and is ...
https://www.mariehaynes.com/a-first-look-at-gemini-enterpris…

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web search NEUTRAL — Oct 9, 2025 ... Today, we're introducing Gemini Enterprise – the new front door for AI in the workplace. It's our advanced agentic platform that brings the ...
https://cloud.google.com/blog/products/ai-machine-learning/i…

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Claim 12: “The agreement called for SpaceX to install ground stations at Google data centers”

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Claim 13: “The company then struck a deal that gives it the option to acquire AI coding startup Cursor for $60 billion.”

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Claim 14: “The agreement spans from October of this year through June 2029 at the $920 million rate”

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Web search results from TechCrunch and Reddit explicitly state the agreement runs from October 2026 through June 2029 at the $920 million per month rate.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The Google Lunar X Prize (GLXP) was a 2007–2018 inducement prize space competition organized by the X Prize Foundation, and sponsored by Google. The challenge called for privately funded teams to be …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Lunar_X_Prize

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Claim 15: “is aiming to go public next week at a valuation of over $1.75 trillion.”

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No evidence was found in the provided search results regarding a specific IPO date 'next week' or a valuation of $1.75 trillion, although a Wikipedia entry mentions a June 12, 2026 IPO at $1.77 trillion.

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Claim 16: “Last month, Anthropic announced a deal to use all of SpaceX's compute capacity at its Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee.”

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Multiple sources confirm Anthropic's deal to use the compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee.

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic Signs Computing Deal With SpaceX to Meet AI Demand.Anthropic Inks Deal to Use All of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 Compute Capacity. 11 hours ago.
https://news.google.com/stories/CAAqNggKIjBDQklTSGpvSmMzUnZj…

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic announced a deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at Colossus 1 in Memphis, Tennessee, giving Anthropic access to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity, over 220,…
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/anthropic-spacex-gpu-deal-fiv…

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic will gain access to more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs at SpaceX’s Colossus One data center in Memphis under a new partnership announced on Wednesday, May 6. The deal that injects over 300 megawa…
https://www.mexc.co/news/1074904

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Claim 17: “Google will use about 110,000 Nvidia graphics processing units, as well as central processors, memory and other components housed in SpaceX's data centers.”

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Multiple sources specify the deal includes access to approximately 110,000 Nvidia GPUs and associated hardware in SpaceX data centers.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — CUDA (Compute Unified Device Architecture) is a proprietary parallel computing platform and application programming interface (API) developed by Nvidia that allows software to use certain types of gra…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CUDA

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Claim 18: “SpaceX has inked a deal with Google that will bring in $920 million a month by providing AI compute capacity to the search giant.”

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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Google signed a compute deal with SpaceX for $920 million per month.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpaceXAI (formerly xAI), is a subsidiary of the American spaceflight company SpaceX working in the areas of artificial intelligence (AI) and social media. SpaceXAI's flagship products are the generati…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceXAI

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — This is a corporate history of SpaceX, an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company founded by Elon Musk.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_SpaceX

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Claim 19: “In the prospectus, SpaceX named Google as a competitor in connectivity... and in AI, SpaceX said it competes with Google as well as OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Microsoft.”

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