Technology20 May 2026SEO 881 min read

Analysis: Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute

Earlier this month, Anthropic surprised the AI world with a deal to buy 300 megawatts worth of compute — securing the entire output of the Colossus 1 data cent…

Earlier this month, Anthropic surprised the AI world with a deal to buy 300 megawatts worth of compute — securing the entire output of the Colossus 1 data center near Memphis, Tennessee. Turns out, compute at that scale isn’t cheap. Anthropic will be paying xAI $1.25 billion per month through May 2029, with a discounted rate for the first two months as xAI completes its ramp-up. All told, the deal could bring xAI over $40 billion in revenue. Details of the transaction emerged from SpaceX’s S-1…

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