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

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.