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A rival spends a year chasing a lab and ends up powering it

development2026-06-07

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Apollo and Blackstone closed a $35 billion private-credit package funding Google TPUs for Anthropic to lease, while xAI spent a chaotic year chasing Anthropic only to end up powering it through Colossus 1, and Google agreed to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for roughly 110,000 GPUs at xAI's sites.

Reported metric: $35B / $920M per month

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One observer noted that with a single deal the SpaceX IPO went from 100x revenue to 50x revenue.

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