Anthropic is paying $15 billion a year for access to Elon Musk’s data centers
Summary
Anthropic, an AI company, agreed to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion per month (totaling $15 billion annually) through May 2029 for access to SpaceX's Colossus data centers in Memphis, Tennessee, which are used for AI training. This deal was revealed in SpaceX's IPO filing (a document companies file when offering stock to the public for the first time).
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Original source: https://www.theverge.com/science/935229/spacex-anthropic-ipo-ai-capacity-deal-colossus
First tracked: May 21, 2026 at 02:00 PM
Classified by LLM (prompt v3) · confidence: 95%