🇺🇸Volato (NYSE American: SOAR) subsidiary Alignment Engine signed $1.17 billion GPU orders with four-year take-or-pay terms and $133 million in contractual prepayments.

Volato’s Form 8-K states that Alignment Engine entered into a Master Services Agreement (MSA) on September 22, 2026 with a customer for dedicated, single-tenant GPU clusters, platform access and related services. The two initial orders have an aggregate contractual value of approximately $1.17 billion; these are customer orders for infrastructure services, not a disclosed purchase of GPUs by Volato.

The accompanying company press release describes both orders as four-year, take-or-pay commitments and calls them Alignment Engine’s first major customer commitment. Approximately $133 million in prepayments is contractually scheduled, including approximately $40 million due following execution of the initial order, with the remainder staged around specified dates and equipment-shipment milestones.

Those prepayments are contractual amounts, not confirmation that the cash has already been collected. The remaining contract value is payable over the four-year terms, subject to the agreements, and the customer is described only as a large AI customer.

The filed MSA summary includes termination for an uncured material breach after written notice and a 30-day cure period, and immediate termination for specified bankruptcy or insolvency events. Additional orders require the customer’s placement or express written authorization; the furnished press release documents management’s announcement, while the Form 8-K’s material-agreement section establishes the disclosed contractual framework.