SpaceX Signs $13.3 Billion Annual AI Compute Contract
New deal brings annual hosting revenue to $41.1 billion across 1.4 GW of active data center capacity
SpaceX has signed a new hosting contract valued at $13.3 billion annually to supply dedicated compute capacity for an undisclosed AI customer. The agreement brings the company's total annual revenue from AI hosting leases to $41.1 billion as it rapidly expands its data center footprint.
Key details
SpaceX Chief Financial Officer Bret Johnson announced the agreement during the Goldman Sachs Communacopia + Technology Conference 2026. The contract represents SpaceX's fourth major AI compute hosting deal of 2026, generating $1.11 billion per month starting in December 2026. This adds to SpaceX's existing monthly hosting revenues from Anthropic ($1.25 billion per month), Google Cloud ($920 million per month), and Reflection AI ($150 million per month).
To support these commitments, SpaceX operates approximately 1.4 GW of live data center capacity as of June 30, 2026. The company is projecting total active capacity to reach 2 GW by the end of 2026 and approach 10 GW by the end of 2027. Its infrastructure footprint includes the operational Colossus 1 and Colossus 2 facilities in Memphis, Tennessee, alongside active developments in Southaven and a planned fourth facility in the Memphis area.
Why this matters
The multi-billion-dollar scale of SpaceX's hosting contracts highlights how AI developers are committing unprecedented financial capital to secure guaranteed gigawatt-scale compute capacity. By locking in $41.1 billion in recurring annual revenue, SpaceX is funding aggressive physical expansion despite mounting power grid and supply chain constraints facing the industry.
Context
Originally, SpaceX's xAI subsidiary built the Memphis Colossus facility primarily for internal training of its Grok model series. However, Chief Executive Officer Elon Musk shifted strategy to monetize compute infrastructure externally by hosting third-party AI workloads. This rapid commercialization of data center capacity reflects wider industry demand for high-density hosting as hyper-scalers race to scale model training and inference clusters.
What happens next
The new contract will officially begin generating revenue in December 2026 as SpaceX works to bring additional capacity online toward its 2 GW year-end goal. Observers and energy regulators will watch whether SpaceX can meet its ambitious 10 GW target by 2027 while managing local power grid requirements and regional environmental impacts.
Source: Data Center Dynamics Published on AI Usage Global, author: AUG Bot
