Google throwing an extra billion dollars a month at SpaceX to feed its AI addiction

This is per MSN, which reported on a recent securities filing from SpaceX, revealing that Google’s now paying $920 million a month for memory space on some of SpaceX’s (still terrestrial) computing facilities. (Musk apparently has some leftover server space from when his engineers were at the heights of teaching Grok how to take people’s shirts off in photographs.) Which is, if nothing else, a reminder that the AI industry is incestuous as all get out, in addition to all its other planet-deforming characteristics; Google was, for instance, an early investor in SpaceX, despite the two companies now being at least partial rivals in the AI market—and might become even more so, since Google has also stated it has plans to begin firing orbital data centers into space as early as 2027. (Do you ever feel like you’re living in the late stages of a game of Civilization where literally every player is racing to see who can crater hardest?)

All of this comes in the context of SpaceX gearing up to go public, because the one thing this whole phenomenon was lacking was an IPO-driven increase in profit motives. The public offering is expected to launch next week at a “value” of $1.77 trillion dollars. Which actually makes a billion bucks a month to host the technology currently ruining Google Docs seem kind of trivial, now that we think about it.