# Anthropic announced a deal with SpaceX to utilize the entire compute capacity of the latter’s data center in Memphis, Tennessee.

*business · news · 2026-05-06 · Ars Technica*

## Key points

- Anthropic secured exclusive access to SpaceX's entire Memphis data center compute capacity.
- The deal provides Anthropic with over 300 megawatts of new compute capacity immediately.
- SpaceX's Colossus 1 supercomputer, central to the deal, has over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs including GB200s.
- Anthropic and SpaceX are discussing future orbital data centers supplying 'multiple gigawatts' of compute.
- Elon Musk, previously critical of Anthropic, now publicly supports their approach after recent meetings.

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

[Read the full story on Ars Technica](https://arstechnica.com/ai/2026/05/anthropic-raises-claude-code-usage-limits-credits-new-deal-with-spacex/)

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