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Anthropic CPO Ami Vora announced Wednesday that the company will lease 100% of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, doubling Claude Code rate limits this month. The deal sits inside a federal Clean Air Act fight over xAI's Memphis-area operations and arrives ahead of SpaceX's IPO.
Anthropic announced Wednesday it has signed to lease 100% of SpaceX's Colossus 1, the 220,000-GPU Memphis cluster Elon Musk's xAI built. The deal doubles Claude Code rate limits this month and ties Anthropic's compute to a federal Clean Air Act fight over xAI's gas turbines. SpaceX is preparing for an IPO bankers price near $1.5 trillion. Why a safety-first AI lab founded as the alternative just became one of Musk's customers.