Musk: SpaceX to Triple GPU Compute by 2027, Going All-In on Nvidia
firstadopter · x · 2026-08-05
Elon Musk announced on the SpaceX earnings call that the company plans to more than triple its Nvidia GPU compute footprint by the end of 2027.
He projects over 2 GW of compute online by the end of this year, with cumulative compute reaching closer to 10 GW by next year. Furthermore, SpaceX has decided to build exclusively on Nvidia going forward, citing their upcoming Vera Rubin architecture as the best available.
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