SpaceX backs Anthropic with data centre deal amidst Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit

Al Jazeera · 🇶🇦 public Qatar · May 06, 2026 · 705 words · By Reuters

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SpaceX backs Anthropic with data centre deal amidst Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit SpaceX pens a new deal with Anthropic as Elon Musk sues competitor OpenAI for allegedly backtracking on its mission.

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What happened

SpaceX backs Anthropic with data centre deal amidst Musk’s OpenAI lawsuit SpaceX pens a new deal with Anthropic as Elon Musk sues competitor OpenAI for allegedly backtracking on its mission.

Why it matters

Anthropic has reached a deal to tap the computing resources of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, marking a detente with its one-time critic and a boost for both companies in the high-stakes artificial intelligence race.

Common ground

Under the agreement announced on Wednesday, Anthropic will use the full computing power of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 facility in Memphis, Tennessee, which houses more than 220,000 Nvidia processors and will give the Claude chatbot maker 300 megawatts of new…

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The tension in the story is sharpened by Loaded Language, Exaggeration / Hyperbole: language that can make the dispute feel more urgent, personal, or adversarial than the underlying facts alone.

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What evidence would most clearly confirm or weaken the claim that Anthropic held its developer day and unveiled a new feature for its Claude AI system called “dreaming”?
What happens next if the deal stalls, and who has the power to restart talks?

open_in_new Read the original article: https://www.aljazeera.com/economy/2026/5/6/spacex-backs-anthropic-with-data-cent…

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 15 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Anthropic held its developer day and unveiled a new feature for its Claude AI system called “dreaming””

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Multiple web search results confirm that Anthropic introduced a 'dreaming' feature for Claude to allow the AI to review past sessions and improve itself.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and focuses on AI safety. Anthropic …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since January 2026, the United States Department of Defense has conflicted with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic over the use of its products for military purposes.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic–United_States_Depart…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by Anthropic and first released in 2023. Since Claude 3, each generation has typically been released in three sizes, from least to most capable: H…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)

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Claim 2: “Microsoft, Google and Elon Musk’s xAI agreed to allow the federal government access to test their new artificial intelligence tools”

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Claim 3: “Anthropic will use the full computing power of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 facility in Memphis, Tennessee”

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Altagic explicitly mentions the use of the data center in Memphis, Tennessee, and WIRED mentions the capacity associated with the deal, which aligns with the Colossus facility's location and scale.

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco. It has developed a range of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and focuses on AI safety.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 4, 2026 · Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
https://www.anthropic.com/

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web search NEUTRAL — Claude is Anthropic's AI, built for problem solvers. Tackle complex challenges, analyze data, write code, and think through your hardest work.
https://claude.com/product/overview

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Claim 4: “Musk said he made the decision to lease computing power to Anthropic after spending time with its leaders last week”

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This specific detail about Musk's decision following a meeting last week is only found in the NYPost cross-reference.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — In a statement on X, Musk said that he made the decision to lease computing power after spending time with Anthropic leaders last week
https://nypost.com/2026/05/06/business/elon-musks-spacex-joi…

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Claim 5: “Musk... is battling OpenAI and its CEO Sam Altman in court for allegedly breaching its mission to develop AI for the good of humanity and remain a nonprofit organisation”

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No evidence was provided in the gathered results to confirm or deny the current status of the lawsuit between Musk and OpenAI/Altman.

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Claim 6: “will give the Claude chatbot maker 300 megawatts of new capacity within a month”

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WIRED explicitly states the deal gives Anthropic access to 'more than 300 megawatts of new capacity'.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anysphere, Inc., doing business as Cursor, is an American software company which develops Cursor, an AI-assisted software development service. Founded in 2022, the San Francisco-based startup achieved…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anysphere

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Grok is a generative artificial intelligence chatbot developed by SpaceXAI. It was launched in November 2023 by Elon Musk as an initiative based on the large language model (LLM) of the same name. Gro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grok_(chatbot)

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Claim 7: “Last week Musk alleged in court that by late 2022, Altman was trying to “steal the charity””

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Claim 8: “The company said it is also interested in working with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of space-based orbital data centres”

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Multiple sources (The Hindu, and other web results) report that Anthropic expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX for orbital AI compute capacity/data centers.

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web search NEUTRAL — As part of the new agreement, Anthropic said it has also “expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.” Musk has previously said he wants …
https://www.moneycontrol.com/artificial-intelligence/anthrop…

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic on Wednesday said it reached a deal to tap the computing resources of Elon Musk’s SpaceX, marking a détente with its one-time critic and a boost for both companies in the high-stakes artific…
https://www.thehindu.com/sci-tech/technology/anthropic-strik…

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic has also expressed interest in working with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of space-based data centers -- one of Musk's key goals and a major driver behind the SpaceX's initial public …
https://theoutpost.ai/news-story/space-x-strikes-deal-with-a…

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Claim 9: “Amodei has previously warned that AI could wipe out 50 percent of entry-level jobs in the next one to five years”

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Multiple sources (Axios via Forbes and other news reports) confirm Dario Amodei's warning that AI could eliminate 50% of entry-level white-collar jobs within five years.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Daniela Amodei (born 1987) is an American entrepreneur and the president of Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) company known for its Claude series of large language models. She co-founded Anth…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Amodei

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Claim 10: “Anthropic has reached a deal to tap the computing resources of Elon Musk’s SpaceX”

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Multiple independent sources (Bloomberg, WIRED, Altagic) confirm that Anthropic signed an agreement with SpaceX to use computing resources.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In cosmology and philosophy of science, the anthropic principle, also known as the observation selection effect, is the proposition that the range of possible observations that could be made about the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The fine-tuned universe is the hypothesis that, because "life as we know it" could not exist if the constants of nature—such as the electron charge or the gravitational constant—had been even slightly…
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Claim 11: “OpenAI’s lawyers claimed that Musk’s lawsuit was an attempt to undermine the Altman-led company in favour of his own xAI, now part of SpaceX”

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Claim 12: “Colossus 1 facility in Memphis, Tennessee... houses more than 220,000 Nvidia processors”

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The NYPost cross-reference and WIRED mention the 220,000 processor figure for the Memphis facility. While some sources mention 100k-200k, the specific claim of 'more than 220,000' is corroborated by the NYPost and the scale mentioned in the WIRED result.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Colossus is a supercomputer developed by xAI. Construction began in 2024 in Memphis, Tennessee; the system became operational in July 2024. It is currently believed to be the world's largest AI superc…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — SpaceXAI is a division of American aerospace company SpaceX working in the area of artificial intelligence (AI), social media and technology. Founded by Elon Musk and 11 researchers in 2023, the compa…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceXAI

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The TOP500 project ranks and details the 500 most powerful non-distributed computer systems in the world. The project was started in 1993 and publishes an updated list of the supercomputers twice a ye…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TOP500

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Claim 13: “Musk, who cofounded OpenAI”

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Claim 14: “Anthropic said it was doubling Claude Code’s rate limits for its paid plans, removing peak-hour usage caps for Pro and Max accounts, and sharply increasing the volume of requests developers can make to its Claude Opus models”

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The NYPost and a specific web search result both confirm the doubling of Claude Code rate limits, removal of peak-hour caps, and increased Opus request volumes.

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web search NEUTRAL — The new rate limits will go into effect August 28 for subscribers to Anthropic's $20-per-month Pro plan, as well as its $100- and $200-per-month Max plans.
https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/28/anthropic-unveils-new-rate…

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic doubled Claude Code's 5-hour rate limits across paid plans, dropped peak-hour throttling for Pro and Max, and lifted API rate limits for Opus. The compute behind it comes from a new SpaceX d…
https://appwrite.io/blog/post/anthropic-doubles-claude-code-…

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web search NEUTRAL — Learn how Anthropic's Claude Code rate limits work, from rolling windows to weekly caps and discover how TrueFoundry's AI Gateway helps teams manage compute, optimize workflows, and ensure scalable, v…
https://www.truefoundry.com/blog/claude-code-limits-explaine…

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Claim 15: “the Department of Defense also announced a deal with 10 different AI giants to use their tech on classified networks. Anthropic was not part of that deal”

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