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SpaceX will provide Anthropic with the entire capacity of its Colossus 1 data center, delivering over 300 megawatts of compute backed by 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, to meet the demand surge for compute power in AI development. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei cited difficulties with compute as the driver for the deal. This partnership signals the extreme GPU shortage and reshapes the competitive energy-and-compute infrastructure race among frontier AI labs.

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