The need for compute makes strange bedfellows. On May 6, just a few months after Elon Musk called Anthropic PBC “misanthropic and evil,” he agreed to lease the entire capacity of SpaceX’s Memphis data center to the artificial intelligence firm. Anthropic is now paying $1.25 billion per month to lease the data center. The reconciliation surely has something to do with the Anthropic’s coming initial
Intelligence Bloomberg May 22, 2026