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SpaceX pursues billion-dollar Pentagon AI lease, shares tumble.

7/21/2026

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SpaceX is negotiating a lease with the U.S. Department of Defense to supply AI compute from its data centers.
The Pentagon contract could be worth billions of dollars, would expand SpaceX’s services beyond launches, and prompted Musk to call the $52 billion Foxconn order report fake news.
SpaceX shares fell 5 % on Friday, extending a weekly decline to 15 % and a 35 % monthly drop, cutting market cap to about $1.63 trillion.

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Story summary

SpaceX is negotiating a lease with the U.S. Department of Defense to supply AI compute from its data centers.
The Pentagon contract could be worth billions of dollars, would expand SpaceX’s services beyond launches, and prompted Musk to call the $52 billion Foxconn order report fake news.
SpaceX shares fell 5 % on Friday, extending a weekly decline to 15 % and a 35 % monthly drop, cutting market cap to about $1.63 trillion.