A deal with a company Google has a share of, announced a week before their IPO, with very non-committal terms and ramp period protections delivered in one large block on short term notice priced likely at the high end of what Google charges for A4X instances anyway.

I don’t think this reflects desperation as much as strategy.

This move was purely to pump up SpaceX stock price at its current absurd valuation b/c Google owns something like 6% of SpaceX