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SpaceX hands a competitor a 300-MW datacenter and closes its own lab

development2026-05-08

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Anthropic signed a partnership with SpaceX handing it the entire Colossus 1 data center, unlocking over 300 MW and more than 220,000 GPUs within the month and doubling Claude Code rate limits, while Elon Musk shut down xAI as a separate company and vouched for the Claude team after a week onsite.

Reported metric: 300 MW / 220,000 GPUs

Reporting date: 2026-05-08 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to May 8, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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SpaceX hands a competitor a 300-MW datacenter and closes its own lab
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Reporting date: 2026-05-08
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-05-08-a-rival-hands-over-colossus-1
Claim: Anthropic signed a partnership with SpaceX handing it the entire Colossus 1 data center, unlocking over 300 MW and more than 220,000 GPUs within the month and doubling Claude Code rate limits, while Elon Musk shut down xAI as a separate company and vouched for the Claude team after a week onsite.
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- Welcome to May 8, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-may-8-2026
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