SpaceX, the company best known for catching rocket boosters with giant mechanical arms, is now in the business of renting supercomputers to one of the largest tech companies on Earth.
Google’s parent company Alphabet has agreed to pay up to $30 billion for access to AI computing capacity housed at SpaceX-affiliated data centers. The deal, disclosed in a regulatory filing on June 5, runs roughly 33 months and positions SpaceX as a serious contender in the high-performance computing market.
What the deal actually looks like
Starting in October 2026, Google will pay approximately $920 million per month to SpaceX for compute access. That runs through June 2029, working out to roughly $11 billion annually once the arrangement is fully operational. There’s an early termination option baked in after December 31, 2026, giving Google some flexibility if priorities shift.
For that monthly check, Google gets access to around 110,000 Nvidia GPUs along with associated CPUs, memory, and supporting infrastructure. The primary facility involved is the Colossus data center in Memphis, which has quickly become the crown jewel of SpaceX’s computing ambitions.
