Anthropic to Pay SpaceX Nearly $45 Billion for Computing Deal (2 minute read)

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Anthropic agrees to pay SpaceX nearly $45 billion over three years for compute resources, expanding an earlier partnership that included capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center.

Anthropic has agreed to pay SpaceX nearly $45 billion over the next three years for compute resources. It will pay $1.25 billion per month until May 2029, with either party being able to end the agreement with 90 days' notice. The companies had earlier this month inked a deal that gave Anthropic 300 megawatts of computing capacity from a large SpaceX data center in Memphis known as Colossus 1. This partnership has expanded to include capacity at a second SpaceX data center.
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