Sources: SpaceX decided to rent its Colossus 1 data center to Anthropic after internal teams struggled to use it for Grok development due to latency issues (Edward Ludlow/Bloomberg)

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SpaceX rented Colossus 1 compute to Anthropic after latency issues limited its usefulness for Grok development.

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<a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-12/spacex-rented-out-computing-after-own-teams-had-trouble-using-it"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260612/i22.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260612/p22#a260612p22" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Edward Ludlow / <a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/">Bloomberg</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-06-12/spacex-rented-out-computing-after-own-teams-had-trouble-using-it">Sources: SpaceX decided to rent its Colossus 1 data center to Anthropic after internal teams struggled to use it for Grok development due to latency issues</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; - Musk's firm struggled with latency issues with Colossus 1&nbsp; &mdash; SpaceX has made AI infrastructure a key part of its IPO pitch</p>