Anthropic → xAI: $40B cloud & services
Anthropic rents Colossus 1 from SpaceX/xAI. Anthropic takes all of Colossus 1's capacity in Memphis (over 300 MW, 220,000+ Nvidia GPUs). SpaceX's S-1 filing indicates $1.25 billion a month through May 2029, over $40 billion in total.
This deal is 8% of everything Anthropic pays and 25% of everything xAI receives in this database.
- Date
- May 6, 2026
- Paid by
Anthropic- Received by
xAI- Type
- Cloud & services
- Amount
- $40B
- Status
- announced
- Note
- all of Colossus 1 (~300 MW, ~220,000 GPUs)
Sources
Press coverage
- May 20, 2026 TechCrunch Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute
All deals between Anthropic and xAI
- May 6, 2026 Anthropic → xAI · Anthropic rents Colossus 1 from SpaceX/xAI $40B
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- Sep 11, 2026 Nvidia in talks for $10 billion in Anthropic IPO $10B
- Aug 25, 2026 Anthropic signs up to $44.6 billion with Nscale $44.6B
- Aug 13, 2026 Anthropic abandons Decart purchase $6B
- Jul 30, 2026 Anthropic leases Hubbard campus n/a
- Jul 22, 2026 Anthropic: 2 GW of AMD MI450 GPUs n/a
- Jul 22, 2026 AMD to invest up to $5 billion in Anthropic $5B
- Jun 22, 2026 Micron to supply HBM, DRAM and SSDs to Anthropic n/a
- Jun 22, 2026 Micron invests in Anthropic's Series H n/a
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