Anthropic has increased usage limits for its Claude products and signed a new compute partnership with SpaceX, gaining access to more than 300 megawatts of capacity at the company’s Colossus 1 data centre, according to an announcement made on May 6.
The AI startup said the deal would provide access to over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within a month and would directly improve capacity for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers.
“We’ve signed an agreement with SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at their Colossus 1 data centre,” Anthropic said in the announcement. “This gives us access to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity.”
Alongside the compute expansion, Anthropic said it is doubling Claude Code’s five-hour usage limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. The company is also removing peak-hour rate reductions for Pro and Max users and increasing API rate limits for Claude Opus models.
The company said the changes are effective immediately and are aimed at improving the experience for heavy Claude users.
The SpaceX partnership adds to a series of infrastructure agreements Anthropic has announced in recent months. These include an agreement with Amazon for up to 5 gigawatts of compute capacity, including nearly 1 gigawatt expected by the end of 2026, and a separate 5-gigawatt agreement with Google and Broadcom that is scheduled to begin coming online in 2027.
Anthropic has reportedly signed a five-year, $200 billion agreement with Google Cloud.
Anthropic also referenced its strategic partnership with Microsoft and NVIDIA, which includes $30 billion worth of Azure capacity, as well as a $50 billion AI infrastructure investment with Fluidstack.
“We train and run Claude on a range of AI hardware—AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs—and continue to explore opportunities to bring additional capacity online,” the company said.
Anthropic added that it has expressed interest in working with SpaceX on “multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.”
The company also said part of its infrastructure expansion will focus on international markets to support enterprise customers in regulated sectors such as finance, healthcare, and government that require local data residency and compliance support.
“Some of our capacity expansion will be international,” Anthropic said, citing its collaboration with Amazon for additional inference infrastructure in Asia and Europe.
The company said it plans to add capacity in countries “whose legal and regulatory frameworks support investments of this scale” and where supply chains for hardware, networking, and facilities remain secure.
Anthropic also reiterated a recent commitment to cover consumer electricity price increases caused by its US data centres and said it is exploring ways to extend that policy internationally while investing in local communities hosting its facilities.
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