Negotiating to supply the Pentagon with AI compute via its Colossus data-center infrastructure; already runs commercial compute deals with Anthropic, Google and Reflection AI worth a combined roughly $27-28 billion annualized at full rate.
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U.S. Department of Defense / Pentagon
Potential buyer of AI compute capacity for agencies including the NSA and deployed forces; already a major SpaceX customer via a $2.29 billion satellite-internet contract and a $4.16 billion missile/aircraft tracking contract.
Controls SpaceX, which absorbed xAI ahead of its June 2026 IPO; his past decision to restrict Starlink access for Ukrainian forces fuels questions about national-security dependency on his companies.
Existing Colossus tenant paying SpaceX roughly $1.25 billion a month through May 2029 for compute to run Claude models.
Signed a roughly $30 billion cloud-compute deal with SpaceX in June 2026, paying $920 million a month for Nvidia-chip capacity from October 2026 through June 2029.
Neocloud compute provider facing direct pricing competition from SpaceX; its stock slid further after reports that SpaceX plans to undercut existing cloud-compute pure-plays.