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Is Google Cloud Subsidizing One Of Its Biggest AI Rivals? SpaceX spins spare silicon capacity into a billion-dollar deal with ‘EWS’ approach. Is Google buying expensive bridge capacity to mask an embarrassing internal hardware shortage? Key Highlights Google agreed to a massive 920 million dollar monthly payout to lease NVIDIA chips from SpaceX through mid-2029. An internal capacity scramble forced Google to secure outside hardware after misallocating 40 percent of its new capacity to Anthropic. The reliance on Elon Web Services highlights Google failure to make its custom Tensor Processing Units the preferred choice for enterprise developers. SpaceX is successfully leveraging an inefficient mixed-bag architecture at xAI to fund its upcoming Nasdaq public listing.