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SpaceX might land another big compute customer: the Department of Defense.

The Pentagon may make a deal where it would pay for billions of dollars of compute from SpaceX, according to The Wall Street Journal.

SpaceX already provides compute to Google and Anthropic, and the company wants to do more in cloud computing, the WSJ says.

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