Google Is Paying $920 Million Per Month to SpaceX. Here's Why Nvidia Is the Quiet Winner Nobody's Talking About.

Google and Anthropic are renting compute capacity from SpaceX.

Behind the scenes, Nvidia is positioned to book some big wins from SpaceX's ambitions.

In the weeks ahead of its June 12 initial public offering, SpaceX racked up a couple of big deals to rent out parts of its data center capacity; one with artificial intelligence (AI) start-up Anthropic and one with Alphabet -owned Google. Both agreements will help SpaceX offset its AI infrastructure costs with recurring revenue streams.

In the background, however, these deals highlighted the AI industry dominance of another company: Nvidia (NASDAQ: NVDA) .

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On May 6, AI start-up Anthropic agreed to rent compute capacity from SpaceX for more than $1.2 billion per month. The deal is set to run through May 2029, though each party is able to cancel the contract at any point with 90 days' notice, according to SpaceX's S-1 filing.

Then, on June 5, a regulatory filing showed SpaceX had inked a deal with Google. After an initial ramp-up period, that agreement will be worth $920 million per month and will run from October 2026 through June 2029. Starting in 2027, either company can end the contract with 90 days' notice.

For Anthropic's deal, it will lease the full capacity of SpaceX's Colossus data center, which features over 220,000 Nvidia graphics processing units (GPUs). Google's deal will give it access to around 110,000 Nvidia GPUs in SpaceX's data centers. So even as megacap tech companies like Alphabet are designing and deploying their own AI chips in a bid to become more self-reliant, this deal highlights that most AI roads still run through Nvidia .