June 12, 2026

SpaceX rented Colossus 1 to Anthropic because it couldn’t make the data centre work for Grok

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SpaceX rented its Colossus 1 data centre to Anthropic not because it had surplus capacity, but because it could not make the facility work for its own AI models. Bloomberg reported on Friday that SpaceX encountered latency issues when trying to conne...