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Reported SpaceX-Anthropic compute lease puts Colossus 1 terms under scrutiny

A Bloomberg Business social summary says SpaceX rented the full capacity of its Colossus 1 data center in Memphis to Anthropic after technical challenges using the facility to develop and run Grok models. TechCrunch reported that Anthropic agreed to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through 2029 for all available Colossus 1 compute near Memphis, and that the site was originally built by xAI for its own AI work. The evidence supports a cautious infrastructure-arbitrage frame: capacity built for one Musk-linked AI effort may be producing outside revenue, but the supplied record does not prove the legal counterparty, GPU count, workload, cancellation rights or exact contract terms. Elon Musk posted on June 1 and June 2, 2026, that the deal is short-term and that his side wanted that length because it might need the compute back, making durability the key question for investors and AI infrastructure buyers.

Technology · June 12, 2026