Some time ago, SpaceX CEO Musk announced that the company will continue to rely on Nvidia components to develop its computing infrastructure. To fulfill that promise, he announced this week that the number of Nvidia chips used in Colossus 2 will more than double by the end of the year.
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The data center of the same name in Tennessee is based on According to Musk’s statementcurrently has 110,000 GB200 chips and 440,000 Nvidia-branded GB300 chips. Another 220,000 GB300 accelerators will be put into use next week, and another 220,000 similar accelerators will be added before November. As Musk said, “with any luck,” another 220,000 GB300 accelerators will be operational by the end of December. It has previously said that SpaceX expects to equip its Memphis computing site with 1 million GPU-based accelerators by the end of this year.
Along the way, SpaceX leaders noted that Colossus 1 uses 150,000 H100 accelerators, another 50,000 H200 accelerators and 30,000 modern GB200 accelerators based on the Blackwell architecture. It’s worth noting that the company’s computing capacity in Memphis is managed quite flexibly. Colossus 1, for example, will be leased over the next few years to Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup in need of computing resources. If SpaceX itself unexpectedly needs the data center, it reserves the right to terminate the lease agreement with Anthropic by giving advance notice to the tenant.
Google is also considering leasing SpaceX’s computing power; Cursor, a startup that showed similar intentions, was eventually acquired by SpaceX, and Colossus 2 has also been booked by the startup Reflection AI, which will pay about $6.3 billion for the lease until 2029. Given the composition of computing power in the Memphis data center described by Musk, Reflection AI will be able to use more modern and efficient Nvidia chips than Anthropic. The data center lease agreement with Google will bring SpaceX about $30 billion in revenue by mid-2029, at which time Anthropic will pay it nearly $45 billion. SpaceX itself has already rushed into space in its data center expansion plan, and will begin deploying satellites equipped with Nvidia chip computing power in space as soon as next year.
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