SpaceX secures roughly $40B in financing from Apollo for AI chips

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SpaceX has reached a binding commitment for about $40 billion in financing to fund purchases of AI chips and related data center equipment. The company disclosed the arrangement in a regulatory filing on Monday. In a statement, SpaceX described it as the largest committed GPU financing deal on record. The filing and statement point to the scale of investment the company is making in AI computing infrastructure. The report is based on the company's own disclosure.

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