Anthropic Secures 300MW Computing Deal with SpaceX’s Colossus Data Center

Anthropic reached a deal with SpaceX to buy computing power from SpaceX’s data centre Colossus 1 in Memphis, Tennessee, the companies announced on Wednesday, May 6, 2026. The facility houses more than 220,000 Nvidia processors and will give Anthropic 300 megawatts of new capacity within a month.

The tie-up comes as the AI company grapples with explosive demand after its revenue and usage increased 80-fold in the first quarter on an annualised basis.

Dario Amodei, the chief executive of Anthropic, spoke at a developer conference hosted by the company on or before May 7, 2026. He said the first one-person $1 billion company will be built by the end of the year. Amodei added that there have been two-person companies that are $1 billion, both with AI.

“I think we’re actually on track to achieve it,” Amodei said of the one-person milestone. “It hasn’t quite happened yet. ” Anthropic released Claude Code, an agent for computer programming, and Claude Cowork, which can autonomously handle tasks such as meeting scheduling.

Katelyn Lesse, head of platform engineering at Anthropic, said the platform gives individuals tools to build agents for marketing, data analysis and other functions. Angela Jiang, head of product, platform, at Anthropic, said the capabilities are already in place for an “AI native” individual with “a lot of agency and imagination” to potentially build a $1 billion business.

Amodei told developers that the company is working as quickly as possible to provide more capacity and would pass that compute on as soon as it can.

He said Anthropic tried to plan for 10-fold growth per year, but the 80-fold increase in revenue and usage in the first quarter explained the difficulty keeping up with demand. Anthropic said it is interested in working with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of space-based orbital data centres.

The computing agreement marks a shift in relations between Amodei and Elon Musk, who runs the competing AI company xAI.

Elon Musk said he spent a lot of time last week with senior members of the Anthropic team. Musk said he was impressed by the Anthropic team and that no one set off his evil detector. ” The announcements underscored the breakneck pace at which Anthropic is scaling its infrastructure and products.

Amodei described a progression from models writing code to models helping users conceptualise entire businesses as tasks. Lesse noted that engineering teams in smaller groups were already achieving more, suggesting companies could do the same through automation.