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The deal extends to multiple gigawatts of orbital compute
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SpaceX confirmed the Anthropic deal extends into multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute because terrestrial power, land and cooling no longer match the required cadence, with Anthropic's chief compute officer summarizing the play as moving a lot of atoms, ideally off-planet.
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