SpaceX did not commit to a multi-year lease of its Memphis Colossus 1 cluster to Anthropic, Elon Musk said on Wednesday, describing the agreement as 180 days with a 90-day mutual cancellation right.
Elon Musk has clarified that SpaceX did not commit to a multi-year lease of its Colossus 1 data centre to Anthropic, contradicting widely reported framing of the deal as a $1.25bn-per-month, three-year arrangement running through May 2029.
The agreement, Musk said in posts on his X account on Wednesday, is in fact a 180-day base lease with a mutual 90-day cancellation right on either side after that.
“The short term was our request, not Anthropic’s,” Musk wrote. “We won’t leave them hanging and will provide a reasonable off-ramp, but if compute gets super tight I said we might need it back at some point.”
The 💜 of EU techThe latest rumblings from the EU tech scene, a story from our wise ol' founder Boris, and some questionable AI art. It's free, every week, in your inbox. Sign up now!The clarification matters because it lands inside the SpaceX IPO roadshow window. The company filed for its public listing last week.
