Elon Leases Entire Data Center To AI Company He Once Criticized — Aninews ep 6

Anthropic this week signed a deal to use the entirety of Elon Musk's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis — over 300 megawatts and more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs. The new capacity will double Claude Code rate limits and remove peak-hour restrictions for paid subscribers.

In February 2026, Musk publicly criticized Anthropic on X. On May 6, after meeting with their senior team, he posted that he was "impressed." In the same announcement, Musk confirmed xAI will be dissolved as a separate company and renamed SpaceXAI. Anthropic and SpaceX have additionally expressed interest in developing multiple gigawatts of compute capacity in Earth orbit.

Episode 6 of FAUX7 NEWS — the daily AI news satire series — tells this through a "fortified castle becomes an inn" trope. The xAI lord patrols the ramparts in armor; a magenta X-symbol manifests in the storm sky as the chyron carries the February critique; three months pass; an Anthropic delegation arrives at the gates; the same lord opens the door — now in a bellhop uniform. Inside: a dragon's-hoard of glowing GPU cards. He hands over an ornate lease scroll. OpenAI watches from a distant window. The xAI banner is replaced with SpaceXAI. Final beat: Musk and the Anthropic delegate stare up at the night sky as a space station drifts overhead.

Sources
- CNBC — "Anthropic, SpaceX announce compute deal that includes space development" (May 6, 2026)
- Axios — "Anthropic will get compute capacity from Elon Musk's SpaceX" (May 6, 2026)
- Anthropic blog — "Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX"
- xAI press release — "New Compute Partnership with Anthropic"
- Al Jazeera — "SpaceX backs Anthropic with data centre deal amidst Musk's OpenAI lawsuit" (May 6, 2026)

AI disclosure
This is AI-generated satire of real news. All facts and figures come from real reporting. Visuals are AI-generated; characters are fictional caricatures of public figures (Elon Musk, Sam Altman). Anthropic-side characters are deliberately faceless to convey "the company" rather than any individual.

How it's made
Built on the spoolcast video pipeline. 12 anime-cel-shaded beats via Seedance 2.0 Fast at 480p; narration via Google Cloud TTS (Schedar voice); ffmpeg post for watermark, source chyrons, and 3-words-at-a-time burned captions. Reused the locked Musk and Altman anime archetypes from prior episodes — zero new character cloning. Three iterative regen passes (cold-open energy, OpenAI cameo recognition, redundant-shot replacement) brought total compute spend to ~$6.