As the European Parliament had announced abandoning Google in favor of the French search engine Qwant, Google would not be weakened, and it was SpaceX’s turn to become Google’s provider of computing power.
This is a mega-contract signed this Friday, June 5, between the two American giants. In this regard, Google will pay $920 million per month to lease ultra-powerful GPU chips owned by Elon Musk’s company.
These GPU chips are manufactured by the American tech giant Nvidia, and SpaceX owns hundreds of thousands of them in its data centers. These are chips that enable training of artificial intelligence models such as Grok, launched by Elon Musk, or Gemini, developed by Google.
According to experts, Elon Musk can afford to rent these Nvidia GPUs to certain competitors.
Still with Google, which owns one of the world’s largest digital infrastructures, it currently lacks computing power and will thus cost it $11 billion per year.
Another financial cost for SpaceX, a few days before its stock market listing, which is shaping up to be the largest in history.
The company aims to raise about $75 billion, for a valuation of around $1.75 trillion.
