GoKawiilSpaceX secures $40 billion GPU lease financing from Apollo Global Management
SpaceX disclosed a binding commitment for about $40 billion in financing to acquire AI chips and data center hardware, calling it the largest committed GPU financing deal to date. An Apollo-managed entity will purchase the equipment and lease it back to SpaceX for roughly five years, with the deal expected to close by year-end and leases beginning in early 2027 as equipment arrives.
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The arrangement gives SpaceX a lease-based alternative to traditional debt for funding its AI buildout, which CFO Bret Johnsen says is already generating under one-year payback periods. The scale of the deal reflects how rapidly compute spending for Grok, Cursor and cloud services has grown relative to SpaceX's core Starlink and launch businesses, suggesting AI infrastructure is becoming a central driver of the company's capital needs.
- SpaceX secured roughly $40 billion in GPU and data center financing via a lease arrangement with Apollo Global Management.
- Leases run about five years and are set to begin in the first half of 2027 as Nvidia Vera Rubin chips and equipment are delivered.
- SpaceX's AI segment generated $7.6 billion of its $14.6 billion in Q3 revenue, exceeding combined Starlink and launch revenue.
Source: techcrunch.com — Aditya Mehta, 2026-10-26
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