Anthropic is paying SpaceX $1.25 billion a month
THE SO WHAT
$1.25B a month to SpaceX for Colossus capacity is effectively Anthropic prepaying for a private cloud at planetary scale. Enterprises betting on ‘wait for prices to fall’ are misreading the curve—top players are front‑loading demand and hardening a floor under high‑end compute costs.
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