[Anthropic Secures $1.25 Billion Monthly Compute Power Deal with SpaceX, Colossus 2 Integration in June] According to monitoring by Beating, Anthropic co-founder Tom Brown announced plans to expand its compute power collaboration with SpaceX, with NVIDIA GB200 compute power set to scale up in the Colossus 2 cluster by June 2026. The latest disclosed prospectus reveals that Anthropic has agreed to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion per month, with the contract running through May 2029. During the ramp-up phase in May and June, Anthropic will enjoy discounted rates. SpaceX founder Elon Musk subsequently confirmed that SpaceX has officially entered the AI Compute-as-a-Service (CaaS) market and is currently in negotiations with multiple companies for compute power leasing. In its prospectus, SpaceX identified AI, alongside aerospace and the Starlink network, as one of the company's three core growth pillars. In addition to the existing Memphis ground cluster, SpaceX plans to leverage its extensive low-Earth orbit satellite constellation to build in-orbit data centers powered by solar energy and utilizing natural space cooling, offering massive-scale space-based AI compute power. [Original Link]