Elon Musk’s SpaceX collects a combined $2.17 billion (R39.7 billion) a month in AI rent from Anthropic and Google. Anthropic agreed to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion (R22.9 billion) every month for three years to rent GPU capacity at the Colossus 1 datacentre in Memphis, Tennessee, in a deal signed in May. Google signed its own lease weeks later, paying SpaceX $920 million (R16.8 billion) a month starting October, running through June 2029. Combined, the two contracts are worth about $26 billion (R476 billion) a year, which is more than SpaceX’s entire 2025 revenue of $18.67 billion (R341.7 billion). Both companies are paying for infrastructure built for xAI, which SpaceX acquired in February in an all-stock deal valued at roughly $1.25 trillion (R22.9 trillion). The merged entity went public in June at $1.77 trillion (R32.4 trillion). In January, SpaceX filed an application with the US Federal Communications Commission for permission to launch and operate up to one million satellites as part of its Orbital Data Center system, internally called Starmind. Musk has said he wants to begin launching them by 2028, using Starship.