Anthropic Signs Computing Deal With SpaceX to Meet AI Demand

May 6, 2026, 11:24 PM UTC

Anthropic PBC has signed an agreement with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to bolster computing resources and meet surging demand for its Claude artificial intelligence software.

Anthropic plans to access more than 300 megawatts of computing capacity from a large SpaceX data center in Memphis known as Colossus 1, the companies said on Wednesday. Anthropic said the partnership would “substantially” increase its computing resources and enable it to raise usage limits for its AI products.

Terms of the deal were not disclosed. Other data center developers have recently been able lock in tenants at terms of anywhere from $1.5 million to ...

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