# Elon leases his data center to the AI company he once criticized

Daily AI news satire. Anthropic gets all 220K GPUs of Colossus 1; xAI dissolves into SpaceXAI; the rivals are now roommates planning compute in orbit.

Type: video guidebook

Published: 2026-05-07

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Format: short

Duration (seconds): 57

Series: Aninews

## Production

writing: author: Claude; role: script · beat plan · narration · sources audit
videoClips: clipCount: 12; models: Seedance 2.0 Fast; platform: kie.ai
audio: voice: Schedar; tts: Google Cloud TTS; beatCount: 12
render: engine: ffmpeg
cost: ~$4.73

## Scenes

### Beat 1

Anthropic this week signed a major compute deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX.

### Beat 2

The agreement covers the entirety of SpaceX's Colossus One data center in Memphis.

### Beat 3

(silent — chyron carries the Feb 2026 paraphrase)

### Beat 4

(silent — time-skip visual carries)

### Beat 5

Per the joint announcement, the deal grants Anthropic three hundred megawatts of capacity and more than two hundred twenty thousand Nvidia GPUs.

### Beat 6

(silent — visual punchline of Musk in bellhop attire carries the beat)

### Beat 7

Anthropic notes the new capacity will double Claude Code rate limits.

### Beat 8

Per Bloomberg, Musk reportedly noted he was impressed.

### Beat 9

(silent — Altman cameo carries via expression)

### Beat 10

In a separate post, Musk confirmed xAI will be dissolved as a separate company.

### Beat 11

Both parties expressed interest in extending the partnership.

### Beat 12

Specifically to multiple gigawatts of orbital compute capacity.


## Sources

[Anthropic, SpaceX announce compute deal that includes space development (May 6, 2026)](<https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-spacex-data-center-capacity.html>)

[Anthropic will get compute capacity from Elon Musk's SpaceX (May 6, 2026)](<https://www.axios.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-spacex-elon-musk-compute>)

[Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX](<https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex>)

[New Compute Partnership with Anthropic](<https://x.ai/news/anthropic-compute-partnership>)

[Anthropic to use all of SpaceX-xAI's Colossus 1 data center compute](<https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/anthropic-to-use-all-of-spacex-xais-colossus-1-data-center-compute/>)

[SpaceX backs Anthropic with data centre deal amidst Musk's OpenAI lawsuit (May 6, 2026)](<https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/5/6/spacex-backs-anthropic-with-data-centre-deal-amidst-musks-openai-lawsuit>)

[Anthropic is doubling Claude Code rate limits after deal with SpaceX](<https://www.engadget.com/2166315/anthropic-is-doubling-claude-code-rate-limits-after-deal-with-spacex/>)

## Transcript

Anthropic this week signed a major compute deal with Elon Musk's SpaceX. The agreement covers the entirety of SpaceX's Colossus One data center in Memphis. (silent — chyron carries the Feb 2026 paraphrase) (silent — time-skip visual carries) Per the joint announcement, the deal grants Anthropic three hundred megawatts of capacity and more than two hundred twenty thousand Nvidia GPUs. (silent — visual punchline of Musk in bellhop attire carries the beat) Anthropic notes the new capacity will double Claude Code rate limits. Per Bloomberg, Musk reportedly noted he was impressed. (silent — Altman cameo carries via expression) In a separate post, Musk confirmed xAI will be dissolved as a separate company. Both parties expressed interest in extending the partnership. Specifically to multiple gigawatts of orbital compute capacity.

## Pre-roll disclosure

⚠ SATIRE — AI-GENERATED PARODY — NOT REAL


## Related tracker entries

[Elon Leases Entire Data Center To AI Company He Once Criticized — Aninews ep 6](<https://artlu.ai/ai/project/elon-leases-entire-data-center-to-ai-company-he-once-criticized-aninews-ep-6.md>)


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