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Google will pay SpaceX $920 million per month to use xAI's data centers.

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Google recently signed a $30 billion AI deal with SpaceX, which owns Elon Musk's xAI. According to SpaceX's filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), SpaceX will receive $920 million per month from Google for providing computing power in its xAI data centers from October this year to June 2029.

The deal will give Google access to 110,000 NVIDIA GPU as well as CPU and memory. SpaceX wrote that if it fails to provide access to that number of GPUs by September of this year, Google could terminate the deal immediately or accept the number of GPUs provided at a discounted payment rate after a one-month grace period.

Google has its own global network of data centers and continues to build more, so you might be wondering why it should pay SpaceX for more computing power. A Google Cloud spokesperson told CNBC and The New York Times that this is only a "short-term, timely agreement" to ensure the company has "bridging capabilities to meet growing demand" for Gemini Enterprise, its AI subscription for large enterprises.

Google isn't its only competitor in the AI ​​space, where SpaceX sells computing power. The Musk-owned company has also signed a deal with Anthropic to give the latter access to xAI's Colossus 1 data center. Anthropic will pay $1.25 billion per month through May 2029, according to documents filed by SpaceX for its IPO. SpaceX is expected to go public on June 12 and raise enough money to become the largest IPO in history.