Anthropic Reportedly Signs Up to $84.5B Compute Deal with SpaceX
Regulatory disclosures reveal that Anthropic has entered into a massive compute agreement worth up to $84.5 billion to lease Nvidia GPU resources at SpaceX's Colossus data centers. The contract features a flexible clause allowing Anthropic to terminate the agreement with just 90 days' notice. The unprecedented scale of this compute deal underscores the staggering financial investments required to train next-generation frontier AI models. It also highlights a major infrastructure partnership between Anthropic and Elon Musk's data center capacity, despite competing market interests. Under the reported terms, Anthropic agreed to pay $1.25 billion per month through May 2029 for compute power hosted at the Colossus 1 and 2 facilities. The capacity relies on Nvidia's latest Blackwell GPUs as part of Musk's effort to scale data center infrastructure toward 1 million GPUs.
## BACKGROUND
Colossus is a high-performance liquid-cooled AI supercomputer data center launched in Memphis, Tennessee to power modern large language models. Leading AI developers require immense GPU clusters and megawatt-scale power infrastructure to train increasingly complex artificial intelligence architectures.