SpaceX pursues multibillion‑dollar Pentagon AI compute deal

On July 18, 2026, Investing.com and Startup Fortune reported that SpaceX is in talks with the US Defense Department to sell dedicated AI data‑center capacity in a deal that could be worth several billion dollars. The potential agreement, first revealed by The Wall Street Journal, would provision Pentagon workloads on SpaceX infrastructure and has already moved related defense and cloud stocks.