
Artificial intelligence developer Anthropic has signed compute contracts with SpaceX worth up to $84.5 billion, nearly double the initial agreement, and expects to spend at least $518 billion in total over the next decade to build out its infrastructure capacity, according to details disclosed in a confidential initial public offering (IPO) prospectus viewed by Reuters.
The decade-long investment strategy highlights the soaring cost and computational scale required to power next-generation artificial intelligence models.
SPCX stock rose about 3% on Tuesday.
The prospectus also reveals an expanded agreement with SpaceX. Anthropic has entered into compute contracts with SpaceX worth up to $84.5 billion through 2029 to access Nvidia-based hardware infrastructure.
The newly disclosed figure significantly exceeds earlier disclosures. Previous filings from SpaceX's own IPO paperwork indicated an agreement worth nearly $45 billion, based on payments of $1.25 billion per month over three years. Unlike many of Anthropic’s cloud platform commitments, the SpaceX agreements generally permit termination with a 90-day written notice.
Anthropic joins a growing list of AI developers—including Google and Reflection AI—that lease high-performance computing capacity directly from SpaceX to meet escalating model training requirements.
According to the prospectus, approximately 80% of the $518 billion total spending requirement consists of non-cancelable arrangements or minimum commitments that must be paid regardless of how much computing power is actually utilized.
Under these long-term agreements spanning seven to 10 years, Anthropic has committed to spending at least $111.1 billion with Alphabet’s Google, $110 billion with Amazon, and $31.4 billion with Microsoft.
The agreement with Microsoft is non-cancelable through May 2033, barring an uncured material breach. Additionally, the company holds roughly $161.2 billion in Broadcom-related equipment lease commitments that carry non-cancelable clauses.
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