Anthropic and Elon Musk strike unexpected data center deal

Just a few months ago, Elon Musk accused AI company Anthropic of stealing AI training data “on a massive scale.” In a post on the social networking site X.

It seems that this did not prevent the billionaire from dealing with the company. SpaceX Mask Data center deal signed That would give Anthropic access to more than 200,000 Nvidia GPUs of power at its Colossus 1 supercomputer facility in Tennessee.

The partnership will give Anthropic additional firepower to “directly improve capability for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers,” SpaceX said in a post on its website. “As part of this agreement, Anthropic has also expressed interest in partnering to develop several gigawatts of orbital computing capacity for artificial intelligence.”

Because of this deal “Anthropy said in his own articleThe company is working to raise usage limits for users across some of its products. The changes, effective immediately, double Claude Code price limits for users of seat-based Claude on Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans, remove Claude Code peak hour limits for Pro and Max accounts and raise API limits for Claude Opus models.

More AI means more data center deals

In the same post, Anthropic listed some other data center agreements with companies, including Amazon, Google and Microsoft, and confirmed its intention to continue expanding internationally. In an era of data center backlash, Anthropic also announced in February that it had pledged to cover the costs of energy price increases resulting from data center activity. Critics have He wondered how Companies like Anthropic can deliver on these pledges.

The deal with SpaceX, which Acquired Musk’s artificial intelligence company xAI It may have surprised some earlier this year, but AI companies are scrambling to secure data center resources as they continue to develop increasingly data-hungry AI models.

At the same time, some communities are as well Push back about building a new data center, prompting some in the industry, especially Musk, to do so He plans To build data centers in space.

Among the groups criticizing the deal is the NAACP, which said in a statement about SpaceX, “Any company that ignores the clear environmental and health concerns of Black communities in order to provide a future that is supposed to help us all sends a clear message about who it intends to serve in that future… Anthropic’s use of a data center that pollutes the historically Black community is, at best, an ill-informed decision and, at worst, a complete disregard for the community’s wishes and health.”

The organization indicated that A The lawsuit you filed Against SpaceX over environmental concerns at its Colossus 1 computing center.