SpaceX Signs $6.3B Reflection AI Deal, Nvidia Eliminate Data Center Water

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Alright, let's get into this first story with SpaceX. They just signed a $6.3 billion compute deal with Reflection AI. And I haven't talked about Reflection AI in quite a long time. This is one that I did a number of podcasts ago when it was kind of announced and launched. We haven't seen a lot coming out of it, but it's evidently they have a lot going on if they're signing $6 billion compute deals. This one in particular is going to give them access. They're an open source lab, but they're going to get access to Nvidia Gb300 chips at the Colossus II data center. This is the one near Memphis and they get that through 2029 So it is the third major company that is going to be on site. Anthropic and Google have both signed deals as well, and I think this shows that there is a massive growing investment in a lot of these open source AI development companies. I'm really excited about this one in particular. Reflection is going to pay about $150 million a month starting in July of this year. That's less than Anthropic, who's paying $1.25 billion a month, and Google is paying $920 million a month at the same site. But again, this is just another one of these mega customers that SpaceX has been able to pull in to paying for this data center that they've built. If you don't remember, the last episode I dropped on this reflection was founded in 2024 It was actually two former Google DeepMind researchers. One thing on these deals that we're seeing at this data center that I will note is that all of them have a 90-day cancellation clause after the first three months. So I mean, I'm not saying SpaceX is trying to juice the numbers, but you could imagine, let's say, Reflection's like, hey, look, I need three months of training, compute done at your data center, and SpaceX is like, sweet, why don't you sign a three-year contract with us? You can cancel after three months if you want, but we want to make sure we got a three-year contract. Okay, I don't think this is what they're doing, but I think this is what some people's criticism has been on these particular deals, because Anthropic, Google DeepMind and Reflection all have that. Now, I mean, when you're talking about these kind of deals paying 1.25 billion a month or 920 million a month, those are massive sums of money, and so it kind of makes sense that if a company wouldn't keep paying that, they might need a way out. But I don't think Anthropic and Google are going to be the ones that are dropping the ball on those payments. Reflection, I'll be excited to see how they grow, but that is still a ton of money, $150 million a month. The reason why I think this matters is because SpaceX basically has accidentally become the world's biggest compute landlord for all of the top labs. They rented all this infrastructure. Originally, XAI, I think, built all of those to train their Grok model, but they keep just building bigger and bigger models, and then they had SpaceX's backing to help them roll out Colossus 2, their brand new data center, and I think they have 2.3 billion in monthly revenue flowing through Colossus 2 right now, and actually I think they have an even bigger one that they're working on now. So I think this is interesting because their model isn't really just Grok, they're kind of XAI models. It's really the hardware that they got for that model, and then they're now renting it out to some of the other hyperscalers. Okay, Nvidia had a big conference and they unveiled a whole bunch of stuff. I have two of the big stories that I want to cover on the podcast today that I'm most excited about. There's a ton of cool Nvidia news. If you care to look it up, you can go check out more of that on aichatdaily.com. I have like ten different articles. But one of the big things I'm excited about is that Nvidia's Rubin AI servers, they're running on 45 degrees Celsius coolant, and that basically kills the data center water usage issue that we've had, that a lot of people talk about, right? There's a lot of negative PR about data centers, and maybe you're in that camp. I'm not really sure. I don't get all of the controversy about data centers.