I Can't Wrap My Head Around This Number - Google to buy computing from SpaceX at $920 million per month


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SpaceX has secured a significant cloud-services deal with Google, agreeing to a monthly payment of $920 million for computing power.  This agreement, covers approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs and other components....

https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/investments/google-to-buy-computing-from-spacex-at-920-million-per-month/131543026

 

 

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On 07/06/2026 at 19:48, TRS-80 said:

SpaceX has secured a significant cloud-services deal with Google, agreeing to a monthly payment of $920 million for computing power.  This agreement, covers approximately 110,000 NVIDIA GPUs and other components....

https://cio.economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/investments/google-to-buy-computing-from-spacex-at-920-million-per-month/131543026

 

 

Anthropic has a similar deal apparently 

Today i learned that spacex has so much computing infrastructure 

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One of reasons why they have so much infrastructure available is that severely overestimated how many people would be using Grok. 

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I Can't Wrap My Head Around This Number - Google to buy computing from SpaceX at $920 million per month

That is because you are poor!

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On 07/06/2026 at 17:33, Good Bot, Bad Bot said:

That is because you are poor!

That is true. but the liability side of my balance sheet is clean and has been for decades.  Nobody comes a knocking,  calling or writing harassing me for the money i owe them.😎👍  Haven't dealt with "a money changer" in decades and like Jesus it was in Jerusalem.  Don't have much money, but have even less stress in my life.👍👍  

 

P.S.  Sorry, can't walk on water or change it to wine,  

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Nearly a billion dollars a month?

I, too, cannot wrap my head around this number...

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What I can't seem to understand is that Google are paying SpaceX? Surely it would be the other way round, with SpaceX needing Google's datacenters etc.?

Oh well, this level of money and power is way outside of my comprehension at the best of times. :laugh:

On 08/06/2026 at 03:58, Nick H. said:

What I can't seem to understand is that Google are paying SpaceX? Surely it would be the other way round, with SpaceX needing Google's datacenters etc.?

Oh well, this level of money and power is way outside of my comprehension at the best of times. :laugh:

From what i understand from the article on the link, Google is buying from SpaceX access to a limited supply of Nvidia CPUs.   Evidendtly SpaceX was able to secure access to the Nvidia GPUs shutting out Google from buying them directly from Nvidia resulting in this reverse deal.

Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute after $80 billion raise: Bloomberg

https://finance.yahoo.com/sectors/technology/articles/google-pay-spacex-920-million-194401230.html

SpaceX IPO Opens Friday at ($135) 94 Times Sales: Morningstar Puts Fair Value at Half the Ask

Morningstar pegs SPCX at $780B, 55 percent below the ask, as bookbuilding closes Wednesday.

https://www.techtimes.com/articles/317982/20260608/spacex-ipo-opens-friday-94-times-sales-morningstar-puts-fair-value-half-ask.htm

 

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