Claude and SpaceX Join Forces to Enhance Large-Scale Compute Capacity

Anthropic announced a major partnership with SpaceX to access over 300 megawatts of computing capacity (roughly 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs) via SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data center, enabling immediate increases to Claude service rate limits and API capacity. The report outlines user and enterprise upgrades (higher Claude Code limits, removed peak-hour throttles, expanded API throughput), plans for regional infrastructure in democratic countries for compliance, and continued multi-cloud/hardware strategies including prior deals with Amazon, Google, and Broadcom.