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Google to Pay SpaceX $920 Million Monthly for AI Compute

6/6/2026

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SpaceX announced Google will pay $920 million per month for AI compute from October 2026 to June 2029, using roughly 110,000 Nvidia GPUs plus CPUs and memory.
If SpaceX misses the September 30 2026 delivery deadline, Google can terminate the contract.
SpaceX’s IPO prospectus seeks $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation, reporting Q1 AI revenue of $818 million and $10.1 billion capital spending, including $7.7 billion for AI infrastructure.

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Historical Context

After Nvidia introduced its first Tesla GPUs in 2006 and retired the Tesla brand in May 2020, the company unveiled the Volta-based Tesla V100 at its GPU Technology Conference on 10 May 2017, delivering 900 GB/s HBM2 bandwidth. Google’s 2020 purchase of 30,000 Nvidia data-center GPUs built on this lineage set a precedent that now underpins SpaceX’s 2026 AI-compute contract with Google.

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Story summary

SpaceX announced Google will pay $920 million per month for AI compute from October 2026 to June 2029, using roughly 110,000 Nvidia GPUs plus CPUs and memory.
If SpaceX misses the September 30 2026 delivery deadline, Google can terminate the contract.
SpaceX’s IPO prospectus seeks $75 billion at a $1.75 trillion valuation, reporting Q1 AI revenue of $818 million and $10.1 billion capital spending, including $7.7 billion for AI infrastructure.

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