No multibillion-dollar NVIDIA agreement
Elon Musk, the head of SpaceX, has publicly contradicted claims that his space company placed a purchase order for computing accelerators valued at 52 billion US dollars. In a brief online statement, he labeled the reports as inaccurate.
The speculation had emerged just hours earlier through coverage in Taiwanese outlets. Citing unnamed industry sources, those reports alleged that SpaceX intended to obtain roughly 13,000 artificial-intelligence server racks from the contract manufacturer Foxconn. Such a quantity would correspond to about one million GB300 graphics units produced by NVIDIA.
Origin of the figures
In arriving at the stated total, observers had assumed a price of around four million dollars per rack, which produced the cited sum of 52 billion dollars. An installation of that scale would far exceed what has typically been required for space missions or satellite networks.
- SpaceX was linked to a supposed order of 13,000 AI server racks
- The alleged value amounted to approximately 52 billion US dollars
- Elon Musk dismissed the account as false
Neither SpaceX nor Foxconn has confirmed the original assertions. The Taiwanese sources remained anonymous, meaning the claim cannot currently be verified by independent parties.