Anthropic announced a new compute partnership with SpaceX alongside expanded usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API as demand for the company’s AI services continues to grow.
The partnership gives Anthropic access to additional compute capacity through SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee. Reports indicate the agreement will provide more than 300 megawatts of new compute capacity and access to over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs.
Anthropic said the increased infrastructure capacity enabled several immediate product updates for paid Claude users. The company doubled Claude Code’s five-hour usage limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans and removed peak-hour usage reductions for Pro and Max subscribers.
The company also introduced materially higher API rate limits for Claude Opus models to support developers running larger and more complex workloads.
Anthropic described the SpaceX partnership as part of a broader global AI infrastructure expansion strategy that also includes agreements with Amazon, Google, Broadcom, Microsoft, NVIDIA, and Fluidstack.
According to Reuters, the announcement was made during Anthropic’s “Code with Claude” developer event in San Francisco, where the company also introduced additional AI agent capabilities and discussed future infrastructure ambitions, including potential orbital AI compute systems developed with SpaceX.
Anthropic said the increased capacity is intended to improve service reliability and support growing enterprise adoption of Claude products, particularly Claude Code and Opus models used for software engineering and advanced AI workloads.
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“We’ve agreed to a partnership with SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API.”
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