SpaceX is in talks with the U.S. Department of Defense to provide billions of dollars in data-center capacity for military AI models. The potential deal highlights the Pentagon's push to secure cloud-computing resources, alongside Amazon's planned $50 billion investment. It also underscores SpaceX's rapid expansion into AI infrastructure, following recent major agreements with Google and Anthropic.
SpaceX Pentagon data center talks
- ▪SpaceX is in talks with the United States Department of Defense to provide data-center capacity worth billions of dollars for running artificial-intelligence models.
- ▪The discussions between SpaceX and the United States Department of Defense regarding data-center capacity are ongoing and could potentially fall apart.
Pentagon AI infrastructure procurement
- ▪The United States Department of Defense is seeking additional cloud-computing capacity to support intelligence agencies and military artificial-intelligence applications.
- ▪Amazon announced in late 2025 that Amazon Web Services would invest up to $50 billion to expand artificial-intelligence and supercomputing capacity for United States government customers.
SpaceX cloud computing expansion
- ▪SpaceX signed a multi-year cloud services agreement with Alphabet's Google in June 2026, providing access to approximately 110,000 Nvidia chips and related computing infrastructure.
- ▪SpaceX employees have discussed plans to compete with neocloud firms like CoreWeave by selling computing capacity to artificial-intelligence customers at lower prices.
- ▪Anthropic reached a deal in May 2026 to utilize the full computing power of SpaceX's Colossus 1 facility in Memphis, gaining 300 megawatts of capacity.
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