{"id":64264,"date":"2026-06-06T03:28:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:28:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/64264\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T03:28:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:28:15","slug":"spacex-has-30-billion-deal-to-provide-google-with-a-i-computing-power","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/64264\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Has $30 Billion Deal to Provide Google With A.I. Computing Power"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">SpaceX revealed in a regulatory <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sec.gov\/Archives\/edgar\/data\/1181412\/000162828026041150\/spacexagreementfwp.htm\" title=\"\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">filing<\/a> on Friday that Google will pay it $920 million a month for computing power, pumping billions of dollars into Elon Musk\u2019s rocket company as it prepares for a blockbuster initial <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/03\/technology\/spacex-ipo-pricing.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">public offering<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">The agreement, which starts in October and runs through June 2029, could earn SpaceX about $30 billion in total. It also helps establish SpaceX \u2014 which owns Mr. Musk\u2019s artificial intelligence lab, xAI \u2014 as a major infrastructure provider as companies compete in a fierce global race to dominate A.I.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">As part of the agreement, Google will gain access to about 110,000 A.I. chips from Nvidia, which Google said would help it meet larger-than-expected customer demand for its A.I. models. The tech giant said in April that its cloud business had contracts totaling $460 billion that had yet to be fulfilled as revenue, indicating enormous demand for its services.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">\u201cGoogle Cloud and SpaceX are longtime partners,\u201d a Google Cloud spokesman said in a statement. \u201cThis is a short-term, timely agreement to ensure we have bridge capacity to meet surging customer demand for our agent platform, Gemini Enterprise, which has been even higher than we expected.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">SpaceX did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">SpaceX reached a similar deal last month to provide <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/06\/01\/technology\/anthropic-ipo.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Anthropic, another leading A.I. lab<\/a>, with computing power. Anthropic, which is also expected to go public this year, is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">SpaceX is expected to go public next week in a deal that could value the company at more than $1.7 trillion and make Mr. Musk a trillionaire. As part of that process, the company has shed more light on its financial details in recent weeks to entice investors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk has built a massive supercomputer in Memphis to power xAI. But the company has largely lagged behind competitors like OpenAI, Anthropic and Google.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">In the run-up to SpaceX\u2019s going public, Mr. Musk has increasingly leaned into A.I. He has promoted xAI\u2019s computing power as an asset, demonstrating that it can be turned into revenue through deals with Anthropic and Google.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">Mr. Musk has also announced details of a <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/05\/07\/business\/spacex-chips-terafab.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">giant chip factory<\/a> he\u2019s building in Texas. And in April, SpaceX announced <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/04\/21\/business\/spacex-cursor-deal.html\" title=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a $60 billion deal to acquire<\/a> the A.I. start-up Cursor, which makes a code-writing assistant.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-ac37hb evys1bk0\">The deal with Google deepens ties between the search giant and the rocket maker. Google owns a roughly 5 percent stake in SpaceX, and has explored the possibility of using SpaceX as a launch partner as Google seeks to put data centers in space, an effort known as Project Suncatcher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX revealed in a regulatory filing on Friday that Google will pay it $920 million a month for&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[24,25,1555,8937,1153,7844,11252,9323],"class_list":["post-64264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ai","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-computers-and-the-internet","tag-elon","tag-google-inc","tag-musk","tag-space-and-astronomy","tag-space-exploration-technologies-corp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}