SpaceX has entered into a multi-year contract with Reflection AI to provide the startup with data centre computing capacity worth approximately $1.8bn annually.
The agreement grants Reflection AI access to SpaceX’s Colossus 2 data centre, which is located in the Memphis area on the border of Tennessee and Mississippi, beginning 1 July.
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Under the terms of the deal, Reflection AI will pay SpaceXAI, the AI subsidiary of SpaceX, $150m per month through the end of 2029.
If the agreement runs the full term, this would total around $6.3bn, Reuters reported.
Either party has the option to terminate the contract with 90 days’ notice after the first three months.
Reflection AI, which was founded in 2024 by former Google DeepMind researchers Ioannis Antonoglou and Misha Laskin, is developing an advanced open-source AI model.
According to the startup, this will allow the model to be downloaded and modified, in contrast to closed systems such as OpenAI’s ChatGPT.
The deal will provide Reflection AI with immediate access to Nvidia GB300 processors.
The Nvidia-backed company stated in a LinkedIn post: “More compute gives us more room to push the frontier on open models.”
The agreement follows other recent deals for SpaceX’s data centre services, including contracts with technology company Google and AI startup Anthropic.
Earlier in June, SpaceX announced that Google would pay $920m per month for capacity ramping up through September, with full fees applied from October 2024 through June 2029.
SpaceX began building its data centre infrastructure for internal use but has recently shifted to sharing this capacity with external organisations as it develops its commercial AI compute business.
