SpaceX backs Anthropic with data centre deal amidst Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit
Key takeaways
- Space X pens a new deal with Anthropic as Elon Musk sues competitor Open AI for allegedly backtracking on its mission.
- xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Space X's new deal comes ahead of a looming IPO for the Elon Musk-led company [File: David J.
- That’s enough electricity to power more than 300,000 homes – as the Dario Amodei-led company seeks to boost the capacity of its Claude Pro and Claude Max AI assistants for subscribers.
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Space X pens a new deal with Anthropic as Elon Musk sues competitor Open AI for allegedly backtracking on its mission.
xwhatsapp-strokecopylinkgoogle Add Al Jazeera on Googleinfo Space X's new deal comes ahead of a looming IPO for the Elon Musk-led company [File: David J. Phillip/AP Photo]By Reuters Published On 6 May 20266 May 2026Anthropic has reached a deal to tap the computing resources of Elon Musk’s Space X, marking a detente with its one-time critic and a boost for both companies in the high-stakes artificial intelligence race.
Under the agreement announced on Wednesday, Anthropic will use the full computing power of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 facility in Memphis, Tennessee, which houses more than 220,000 Nvidia processors and will give the Claude chatbot maker 300 megawatts of new capacity within a month. That’s enough electricity to power more than 300,000 homes – as the Dario Amodei-led company seeks to boost the capacity of its Claude Pro and Claude Max AI assistants for subscribers.