SpaceX Backs Anthropic with Massive Data Centre Deal Amidst Musk's OpenAI Legal Battle

Summary

Anthropic has secured a major partnership with SpaceX to access computing resources from the company's Colossus 1 facility in Memphis, Tennessee, gaining 300 megawatts of new capacity and access to over 220,000 Nvidia processors. The deal marks a significant detente between Anthropic and Elon Musk, who had previously been critical of the company, and comes as Anthropic simultaneously unveiled new features and expanded service capabilities for its Claude AI platform.

The partnership announcement coincided with Anthropic's developer day, where the company introduced "dreaming," a new feature allowing AI systems to review work between sessions and identify patterns. Anthropic is also exploring deeper collaboration with SpaceX on space-based orbital data centers, a major initiative for SpaceX's planned IPO. With the additional computing capacity, Anthropic has doubled Claude Code's rate limits for paid plans and removed peak-hour usage caps for Pro and Max subscribers.

Musk's decision to lease computing power to Anthropic appears motivated by his positive impressions of the company's leadership and their commitment to AI safety. However, the deal occurs amid Musk's ongoing lawsuit against OpenAI and CEO Sam Altman, accusing them of breaching the organization's nonprofit mission. The partnership also unfolds as the Trump administration negotiates AI agreements with other tech giants, notably excluding Anthropic from those discussions.

• Anthropic doubled Claude Code rate limits and removed peak-hour caps for Pro/Max users due to increased capacity
• Both companies are exploring space-based orbital data centers as a future collaboration to support SpaceX's IPO goals