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SpaceX Leases Colossus Supercomputer to Anthropic Ahead of Planned IPO
SpaceX leased its full Colossus 1 supercomputer to Anthropic last week. Investor Chamath Palihapitiya described the transaction as a valuation reinforcement for SpaceX as it prepares for an initial public offering valued at $2 trillion. The supercomputer includes 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and consumes more than 300 megawatts of power.
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SpaceX leased its full Colossus 1 supercomputer to Anthropic last week. Altimeter Capital's Brad Gerstner valued the rocket maker at 40 to 50 times revenue based on projected sales of $40 billion to $50 billion next year. The hosts of the All-In podcast referred to the new cloud business as Elon Web Services.
The lease covers 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and more than 300 megawatts of power. com, Microsoft and Alphabet for artificial intelligence cloud spending.
1 operates with older H100 chips. xAI retains newer hardware for its own use. The transaction marks SpaceX's entry into the AI cloud infrastructure market. The company had previously built the supercomputer primarily for internal needs before allocating capacity to Anthropic.
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