谷歌每月向 SpaceX 支付 9.2 亿美元,以获取 xAI 数据中心的计算能力。
Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

原始链接: https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity.html

在备受期待的首次公开募股(IPO)前夕,SpaceX 达成了一项重大协议,将向谷歌提供价值每月 9.2 亿美元的 AI 计算能力。该协议有效期至 2029 年 6 月,允许谷歌使用 SpaceX 数据中心内约 11 万个英伟达 GPU 及配套基础设施。 此项战略举措是在埃隆·马斯克的公司寻求在以超过 1.75 万亿美元的预期估值上市前,增强其财务表现之际作出的。尽管 SpaceX 在 AI 基础设施上投入巨大(仅第一季度就投入了 77 亿美元),但其 AI 部门目前正面临严重的运营亏损。通过向谷歌和 Anthropic 等大型企业出租计算能力,SpaceX 旨在将其庞大的资本支出转化为收入。 该交易突显了这两家科技巨头之间复杂的关系;尽管双方在基础设施方面展开合作,但它们在 AI 和卫星互联网领域依然是激烈的竞争对手。对于谷歌而言,此次合作是其扩大 AI 能力以满足激增客户需求的关键举措,此前谷歌已将资本支出预期上调至近 1900 亿美元。

据报道,谷歌已同意每月向 SpaceX 支付 9.2 亿美元,以租用 xAI 数据中心的计算能力,协议有效期至 2029 年 6 月。该交易使谷歌能够使用约 11 万个 GPU,每个 GPU 每小时的成本约为 12 美元。 Hacker News 上的讨论呈现两极分化。支持者认为,在竞争激烈的市场中,此举是获取稀缺硬件资源的合理策略,可能有助于 SpaceX 通过增加收入获得标普 500 指数的入选资格。相反,批评者称该交易是提高 SpaceX 上市前估值的“隐秘”手段;还有人指出,谷歌作为一个目标在 2030 年实现无碳能源的公司,却将其计算需求外包给由甲烷燃气轮机供电的设施,这一做法颇具讽刺意味。 除财务层面外,用户推测 xAI 出租硬件可能是因为其自身模型 Grok 尚未达到足够的规模,无法填满其数据中心的产能。许多评论者还对人工智能行业普遍存在的“淘金热”性质表示担忧,质疑此类大规模短期租赁协议的稳定性,以及构建这种高算力基础设施可能带来的环境和道德权衡。
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(L-R) Google CEO Sundar Pichai speaks with Tesla and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk as they arrive for the inauguration ceremony before Donald Trump is sworn in as the 47th US President in the US Capitol Rotunda in Washington, DC, on January 20, 2025. 

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Days before a planned IPO that's expected to raise record sums of cash, SpaceX has inked a deal with Google that will bring in $920 million a month by providing AI compute capacity to the search giant.

According to a regulatory filing on Friday, Google will use about 110,000 Nvidia graphics processing units, as well as central processors, memory and other components housed in SpaceX's data centers. The agreement spans from October of this year through June 2029 at the $920 million rate, and with "capacity ramping up through September at a reduced fee."

SpaceX said in the filing that if it fails to "deliver access to the committed amount of GPUs by September 30, 2026," Google can immediately end the agreement, or accept the number of GPUs provided at a reduced fee after a one-month grace period.

After this year, the agreement can be terminated by either party provided they give 90 days' notice.

It's the second massive infrastructure deal announced by SpaceX following its merger in February with xAI, Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company, in a transaction that valued the combined entity at $1.25 trillion. Last month, Anthropic announced a deal to use all of SpaceX's compute capacity at its Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee.

Alphabet has made a windfall from backing SpaceX. Musk's company was worth $12 billion at the time of Google's 2015 investment, and is aiming to go public next week at a valuation of over $1.75 trillion.

Musk is trying to boost SpaceX's AI story ahead of next week's offering to show that the company is getting at least some return on its hefty investment in multiple data centers in and around Memphis. SpaceX said in its prospectus that capital expenditures in the first quarter totaled $10.1 billion, more than doubling from a year earlier, with the vast majority of those costs — $7.7 billion — committed to AI.

Meanwhile, the AI segment of the business recorded an operating loss in the quarter of $2.5 billion on just $818 million in revenue. Musk has touted xAI's Grok model and chatbot as a rival to offerings from AI leaders OpenAI, Anthropic and Google, but his company's products have yet to make much of a dent in the booming market.

"We believe our compute infrastructure and related strategy provides us with substantial flexibility in how we allocate and monetize capacity," SpaceX said in a section of its IPO filing on "compute service agreements with third parties."

In the prospectus, SpaceX named Google as a competitor in connectivity, where SpaceX owns the Starlink satellite internet unit and Google has a fiber business. And in AI, SpaceX said it competes with Google as well as OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta and Microsoft.

Google is significantly ramping up spending on AI as it races to keep up with rival hyperscalers. The company in April revised its capital expenditure forecast this year to between $180 billion and $190 billion, up from its previous estimate of $175 billion to $185 billion.

Alphabet said this week it plans to sell $85 billion in stock, including through a $10 billion investment by Berkshire Hathaway, to meet "unprecedented customer demand."

In jumping into the infrastructure leasing market, SpaceX is also competing with a group of companies, commonly called neoclouds, that includes CoreWeave and Nebius. Those stocks got hammered on Friday as part of a broader tech selloff, but bounced back some following the SpaceX-Google announcement.

—CNBC's Jennifer Elias contributed to this report.

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