Filing: Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920M per month for access to Nvidia chips as part of a cloud-services deal that runs through mid-2029

Alphabet Inc.'s Google has agreed to pay Elon Musk's SpaceX $920 million a month for computing power as part of a cloud services deal that runs through mid-2029 …

Bloomberg 2026-06-06

Context & Ripple Effects

Google and SpaceX already had a cloud relationship: in 2021, SpaceX agreed to place Starlink terminals at Google data centers. The newer arrangement extends that connection into AI compute, with Google Cloud characterizing the capacity as a bridge for Gemini Enterprise demand.

The filing supplies an unusually concrete view of the scale and duration of a cloud customer securing Nvidia-based capacity from an external provider, even as Google positions the arrangement as short-term.

First-order effects

Google Cloud gains access to Nvidia compute capacity through SpaceX to serve near-term Gemini Enterprise demand; SpaceX receives a contracted cloud-services revenue stream through mid-2029.
The agreement makes SpaceX a material supplier of AI infrastructure to Google, rather than solely a connectivity partner in their prior relationship.

Second-order effects

Google’s use of external capacity highlights that cloud providers may need to supplement their own infrastructure when enterprise AI demand outpaces immediately available supply.
Nvidia’s chips become an even more central bargaining point in cloud-capacity contracts, while competing compute providers face pressure to demonstrate comparable availability for AI workloads.

Third-order effects

If large cloud platforms increasingly procure capacity from one another or from nontraditional operators, AI infrastructure could evolve into a more interconnected wholesale market rather than a wholly vertically integrated cloud business.
The tension between a multi-year contractual term and Google’s description of the capacity as a bridge illustrates how providers may use long commitments to manage temporary supply constraints; whether this becomes durable depends on how quickly proprietary and newly built capacity comes online.

The trend: This is one data point in the shift from building all AI capacity internally toward securing scarce accelerator compute through large external infrastructure partnerships.

Discussion

@jaminball Jamin Ball on x
Different types of GPUs! Anthropic using from Colossus 1 and Colossus 2. Roughly 325k total, split into ~150k H100s ~50k H200s ~125k GB200s Google likely only using Colossus 2, all 110k being GB200s More recent hardware costs more!
@bpodgursky Ben Podgursky on x
google is paying spacex $12 billion/yr for compute but they also own 6% of spacex so if the market is pricing spacex at 94x revenue that means they paid $12 billion to make $68 billion. i'm not a cfo but that seems like a win.
@tenobrus @tenobrus on x
imo it's obviously a really terrible thing for spacex. the degree to which u believe this is basically just the degree to which u believe in RSI and ASI
@hedgeyecomm @hedgeyecomm on x
lol unreal... not sure w will ever see anything like it again in our lifetime. The coordinated effort is stunning.
@shaunmmaguire Shaun Maguire on x
SpaceX just quietly amended its S-1 announcing another mega deal $920M/month from Google from October 2026 through June 2029 With both parties being able to terminate the agreement with 90 days notice Things are getting exciting 🚀 [image]
@zephyr_z9 @zephyr_z9 on x
$920M for 110k GPUs Google is paying $11.6/hr for Blackwells
@mikeisaac Rat King on x
good faith question: the glass half full on SpaceX signing the google deal to rent servers is that it's real ARR the glass half empty — and i dont know the answer to this — is has xai given up on model development and just selling capacity as a neocloud now?
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
Also this is the firmest proof that data center capacity is just not getting built. If it were, given all its capex, I imagine Google would just use its own data centers
@edzitron Ed Zitron on x
Very strangely worded, but the biggest red flag is the idea that Google can simply end the agreement if the chips aren't there or “pay a reduce fee after a one-month grace period.” Wonder how that times with SpaceX's first earnings? Oh well https://www.cnbc.com/... [image]
@edludlow Ed Ludlow on x
BREAKING; SpaceX and Google enter a cloud service agreement through which Google has agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million per month from October 2026 to June 2029. Compute capacity provided includes about 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, CPUs, memory and other related components
@luke_metro @luke_metro on x
huge divide on the TL between those who think that Google paying SpaceX for compute is a good thing for Spacex, or bad thing for SpaceX
@rohanpaul_ai Rohan Paul on x
SpaceX just disclosed a new Cloud Service Agreement with Google. Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month (about $11B a year) for compute capacity at xAI data centers Shows again AI compute is becoming a strategic commodity like launch capacity or energy, and the companies [imag…
@marcelolima Marcelo P. Lima on x
On headline numbers, Google is paying about 2.2x the rate per GPU that Anthropic is paying for SpaceX's capacity. 2.2x. Is there a good explanation for this? Is the underlying hardware very different.
@benbajarin Ben Bajarin on x
Handful of vendors desperate for compute will take any and all as it comes online. Time to compute when compute = $. It's there because no one uses grok but my father in law.
@emostaque Emad on x
This single deal is about the revenue of @CoreWeave to put it in perspective @SpaceX is the largest neocloud & its AI cloud revenue at $26b run rate is actually at the level of Google Cloud & AWS already, catching up to Azure ($37b run rate)
@signulll @signulll on x
you're telling me anthropic & google are paying spacex ~$26b a year for compute?!! this is more than half the run rate of openai & anthropic just from compute deals & that doesn't even factor in the rocket launches at all. elon accidentally ended up owning a significant portion…
@sawyermerritt Sawyer Merritt on x
SpaceX has just announced that they have entered into a $920 million per month agreement with Google to provide compute capacity, according to a new filing. “On June 5, 2026, we entered into a Cloud Service Agreement with Google with respect to access to compute capacity. The [im…
@theo @theo on x
Google is now paying SpaceX nearly $1 billion every month for compute. Yes, Google is paying SpaceX for compute. They're that desperate.
@william_fitz William Fitzgerald on x
are they all just sending money to each other and passing it around in a circle?
@krishnanrohit Rohit on x
SpaceX has just signed $25B of neocloud revenue in just a month or so
Benedict Evans Benedict Evans on linkedin
SpaceX renting out all of the compute capacity that xAI built but can't actually use, in a market where anyone who has any kind of GPU can sell …
@lorak Lora Kolodny on bluesky
Musk built out data centers and methane-burning power plants to run them in Greater Memphis with xAI. Now it's owned by SpaceX, the company is just renting out is compute capacity to companies xAI / Grok saw as competitors - Anthropic earlier, now Google... www.cnbc.com/2026/06/…
@localseoguide.com @localseoguide.com on bluesky
Colossus may turn out to be one of the few successful data center businesses, mostly because Grok usage is so low. [embedded post]
@okane.fyi Sean O'Kane on bluesky
SpaceX is now going to make around $26B per year thru 2029 just from the Anthropic and Google deals. — That's nearly triple Starlink's revenue last year. — The deals are essentially non-binding though, with all parties able to walk away w/ 90 days notice. — techcrunch.com/2…
@wilkos @wilkos on bluesky
Read another way: Grok/XAI has so little demand SpaceX can sell commodity compute to both Anthropic AND Google [embedded post]
r/Economics r on reddit
Corporate level Ponzi scheme?
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Google Buying Computing From SpaceX in $920-Million-a-Month Deal
@marypcbuk Mary Branscombe on bluesky
No one is using Grok so Elon has to pimp the GPUs out but also given how often the Google CEO is over palling around at the White House, can he really say no when Trump's buddy asks for money? [embedded post]
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