# Anthropic has ‘expressed interest’ to co-develop data centres in space, said SpaceX.

*genai · news · 2026-05-07 · Siliconrepublic.com*

## Key points

- Anthropic has agreed to purchase compute capacity from SpaceX's Colossus 1 AI supercomputer.
- Anthropic is considering co-developing multi-gigawatt orbital AI compute capacity with SpaceX.
- SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center uses over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, including H200 and GB200 accelerators.
- The newly combined SpaceXAI aims to build and transport data centres into space for solar energy use.
- Anthropic's new compute deals are enabling doubled Claude Code and raised Claude API rate limits.

**Companies:** SpaceX, Anthropic, Amazon, Google
**Countries:** United States

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