Anthropic on Wednesday, May 6, announced a deal with Elon Musk-owned SpaceX to expand computing capacity for Claude by tapping into data centres originally built to power xAI’s Grok model.
Under the agreement, SpaceX’s Colossus 1 facility in Memphis, Tennessee, which houses more than 220,000 Nvidia processors, will supply 300 megawatts of new capacity to Anthropic within a month.
This could help Anthropic ease capacity constraints following a surge in demand for products, such as its AI coding tool, Claude Code. While the exact terms of the deal have not been disclosed, Anthropic has said it is interested in partnering with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of compute capacity via orbital data centres in space.
The deal could be the start of a new working relationship between Anthropic’s leadership and Elon Musk, who has been critical of the Claude-maker in the past. “Frankly, I don’t think there is anything you can do to escape the inevitable irony of Anthropic ending up being misanthropic,” Musk previously wrote in a post on X.
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