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Anthropic has agreed to spend up to $120.5 billion on computing power from SpaceX, $SPCX, according to its IPO filing. The deals are with SpaceX’s AI unit and give Anthropic access to Nvidia, $NVDA, chips. It’s part of the up to $750 billion Anthropic has signaled it could spend on computing capacity in the coming years.

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✍️Edited by Luís Barata

Anthropic has agreed to spend up to $120.5 billion on computing power from SpaceX, according to SpaceX's IPO filing, with the contracts placed through SpaceX's AI unit and granting Anthropic access to Nvidia chips. The arrangement is a large multi-year compute commitment that channels AI infrastructure demand toward SpaceX's data center capacity rather than solely toward hyperscale cloud providers. For Nvidia, the transmission runs through its GPU supply chain, since guaranteed utilization of Nvidia hardware supports order visibility even though the chips are accessed through an intermediary. SpaceX's public valuation and Elon Musk's broader exposure would be most sensitive to the revenue durability of this contract, while the headline also raises questions about how much of Anthropic's compute spend is being locked in across multiple providers. Traders should watch the SpaceX IPO pricing and the first disclosed revenue or backlog figures from its AI unit, along with any Nvidia commentary on data center order concentration in upcoming earnings.

Source: Originally reported by Unusual Whales at October 26, 2026. Summary and market context by Trading News Terminal editorial.

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