Google flies to Stockholm the week of a $30 billion AI compute deal with SpaceX

Google flew from Hildesheim, Germany to Stockholm-Arlanda on June 10, 2026, a 73-minute hop aboard the Gulfstream G550 N10XG. The flight arrives the same week SpaceX — owner of xAI's Colossus data centers — is expected to go public in what would be the largest IPO in history, per regulatory filings covered by Engadget and The Next Web.

The trip coincides with the closing and announcement of a landmark compute deal: Google will pay SpaceX $920 million a month from October 2026 through June 2029 for access to 110,000 Nvidia GPUs, CPUs and memory, totaling roughly $30 billion. The company called it short-term bridge capacity for surging Gemini Enterprise demand, as capacity-constrained Google waits for its own $180–190 billion 2026 AI infrastructure buildout to catch up. The same SpaceX filing shows Anthropic is paying $1.25 billion a month for a separate block of the same GPUs.

The Stockholm leg follows a week of frenetic travel. N10XG flew from Las Vegas to Mountain View on June 2 — the day Alphabet priced its $84.75 billion equity raise, including a $10 billion Berkshire Hathaway private placement to fund AI capex — then crossed the Atlantic to Frankfurt on June 8. The brief Hildesheim-to-Stockholm hop suggests a meeting with Nordic data-center partners or regulators supporting Google's global compute expansion.