{"id":87904,"date":"2026-06-27T09:01:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:01:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/87904\/"},"modified":"2026-06-27T09:01:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-27T09:01:11","slug":"spacex-has-landed-data-center-deals-with-anthropic-google-and-reflection-that-could-be-worth-over-76-billion-through-2029-is-that-enough-to-justify-its-valuation-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/87904\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Has Landed Data Center Deals With Anthropic, Google, and Reflection That Could Be Worth Over $76 Billion Through 2029. Is That Enough to Justify Its Valuation?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Key Points<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will lease compute capacity to some of the world&#8217;s most prominent artificial intelligence companies.<\/p>\n<p>If the contracts run their full term, they would generate tens of billions in revenue, significantly more than SpaceX made in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>However, there are some nuances investors should be aware of.<\/p>\n<p>Many people and investors scoffed at Space Exploration Technologies (NASDAQ: SPCX) and its founder, Elon Musk, when the company sought to raise over $75 billion at a $1.77 trillion valuation. That&#8217;s primarily because the company generated only about $18.7 billion in revenue in 2025, posted a nearly $2.6 billion operating loss, and incurred over $30 billion in capital expenditures in 2025 and the first quarter of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>But SpaceX has shown that, beyond its space and Starlink businesses, it also has a burgeoning data center business that provides compute to some of the largest players in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/investing\/stock-market\/market-sectors\/information-technology\/ai-stocks\/ai-etfs\/?utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=624bff00-dfe4-455e-986e-3b12c142414b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">artificial intelligence<\/a> (AI).<\/p>\n<p>Missed Nvidia in 2009? This Rare Signal Is Flashing Again.In 2009, a &#8220;Double Down&#8221; signal flashed for a little-known chipmaker called Nvidia. For the first time in years, that same &#8220;Total Conviction&#8221; signal is flashing for a company 1\/100th the size of Nvidia. <a href=\"https:\/\/api.fool.com\/infotron\/infotrack\/click?apikey=35527423-a535-4519-a07f-20014582e03e&amp;impression=ed24e439-2920-4d6d-9eb1-7228dd003b5a&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fa-sa-dd-total-conviction%3Faid%3D11123%26source%3Disaediica0000078%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-dd-4%26ftm_veh%3Dtop_incontent_pitch_feed_partner%26ftm_pit%3D19478&amp;utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=624bff00-dfe4-455e-986e-3b12c142414b\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Continue \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has now inked deals with Anthropic, Alphabet&#8217;s (NASDAQ: GOOG)(NASDAQ: GOOGL) Google, and an AI start-up called Reflection, potentially worth over $76 billion in revenue (collectively) between now and the end of 2029. Is this enough to justify SpaceX&#8217;s massive valuation?<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"An astronaut floating in a space ship while holding a computer.\" src=\"https:\/\/barchart-news-media-prod.aws.barchart.com\/FC\/9bf167b306c9747d81dd49ca8c286abd\/%3Furl%3Dhttps%253a%252f%252fg.foolcdn.com%252feditorial%252fimages%252f875730%252fperson-in-space-ship-getty.jpg%26amp%3Bw%3D700\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"caption\">Image source: Getty Images.<\/p>\n<p>There&#8217;s no guarantee the deals will run through 2029 at current costs<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what each data center deal looks like: SpaceX provides these three companies access to its data centers, which host Nvidia&#8217;s graphics processing units (GPUs) and other AI infrastructure.<\/p>\n<p>Starting in May, Anthropic, the parent company of Claude, began paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through 2029, in a deal valued at over $40 billion.Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million per month, starting in October and continuing through June 2029, for access to Nvidia&#8217;s GPUs and other data center infrastructure, including central processing units (CPUs) and memory. The deal is worth over $30 billion over its potential life.Starting in July, Reflection will pay $150 million per month for compute through 2029, valuing the deal at $6.3 billion over its life.<\/p>\n<p>While it all sounds great, there&#8217;s no guarantee that these deals will last. Each party may terminate the deal with 90 days&#8217; notice, typically effective at the beginning of 2027.<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the Anthropic deal for its Colossus data center in late May, Musk said he wasn&#8217;t yet sure whether it would actually last through 2029.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;SpaceX has not committed to leasing Colossus for years, \u200balthough it&#8217;s possible that may be what happens,&#8221; Musk \u200bwrote on his social media platform X, adding that the short-term ability to end the agreement was done at SpaceX&#8217;s request and not Anthropic&#8217;s. &#8220;We \u2060won&#8217;t leave them hanging and will provide a reasonable off-ramp, but if compute gets super tight, \u200bI said we might need it back at \u200bsome point.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This implies that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/research\/spacex-stock-ipo-prospectus\/?utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=624bff00-dfe4-455e-986e-3b12c142414b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SpaceX<\/a> has plenty of demand for its data centers, but there&#8217;s also a chance that compute doesn&#8217;t stay this tight over the next three years and that pricing changes, so there are still many variables.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX&#8217;s valuation still depends on things that haven&#8217;t happened yet<\/p>\n<p>Even if demand for compute stays this tight and Anthropic and Google choose to continue leasing SpaceX&#8217;s data centers, SpaceX won&#8217;t have enough capacity to simply keep scaling data center deals.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic&#8217;s deal gives it access to over 300 megawatts (MW) of compute capacity. In its registration statement, SpaceX said its Colossus and Colossus II data centers collectively have about 1 gigawatt (GW) of compute power, with additional power capacity available for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/d\/data-center\/?utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=624bff00-dfe4-455e-986e-3b12c142414b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">data center<\/a> operations.<\/p>\n<p>So it can&#8217;t keep leasing unlimited compute. The company will have to build more data centers at some point, which are not cheap.<\/p>\n<p>Don&#8217;t get me wrong, if all three of these compute deals last through the end of 2029 at this pricing level, that will be a big positive for the company and will certainly help bolster the argument that the company deserves its current valuation.<\/p>\n<p>But if SpaceX is really going to succeed as a stock and get to a $5 trillion or $10 trillion market cap, or even higher, it&#8217;s going to have to make its vision of putting data centers in space a reality. This will require the company to get Starship, a fully reusable, heavy-lift launch rocket, fully operational.<\/p>\n<p>In its registration statement, SpaceX says, &#8220;We expect to begin deploying our orbital AI compute satellites as early as 2028.&#8221; But I think investors should exercise heavy skepticism at this point.<\/p>\n<p>Ultimately, while these initial data center deals with Anthropic, Google, and Reflection do show some of the company&#8217;s potential, when you trade over a $2 trillion <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fool.com\/terms\/m\/market-cap\/?utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=624bff00-dfe4-455e-986e-3b12c142414b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">market cap<\/a>, you need more than just potential.<\/p>\n<p>Should you buy stock in Space Exploration Technologies right now?<\/p>\n<p>Before you buy stock in Space Exploration Technologies, consider this:<\/p>\n<p>The Motley Fool Stock Advisor analyst team just identified what they believe are the <a href=\"https:\/\/api.fool.com\/infotron\/infotrack\/click?apikey=35527423-a535-4519-a07f-20014582e03e&amp;impression=38ff890a-44a4-4707-b773-46447aa7df4b&amp;url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.fool.com%2Fmms%2Fmark%2Fe-sa-bbn-dyn-headline%3Faid%3D11234%26source%3Disaeditxt0001178%26company%3DSpace%2520Exploration%2520Technologies%26ftm_cam%3Dsa-bbn-evergreen%26ftm_veh%3Darticle_pitch_feed_partners%26ftm_pit%3D18725&amp;utm_source=globeandmail&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=article&amp;referring_guid=624bff00-dfe4-455e-986e-3b12c142414b\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">10 best stocks<\/a> for investors to buy now\u2026 and Space Exploration Technologies wasn\u2019t one of them. 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