Anthropic Leases Colossus 1 from SpaceX and Raises Claude Limits
Anthropic has contracted the full compute capacity of SpaceX’s Colossus 1—over 300 MW and more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs—adding to existing deals with Amazon, Google/Broadcom, Microsoft/NVIDIA, and Fluidstack. The added capacity has been converted into expanded limits for Claude Code and the Claude API:
- Claude Code: five-hour limits are now doubled for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise tiers; Pro and Max peak-hour restrictions have also been removed.
- Claude API: Opus limits are raised across all tiers, with Tier 4 now supporting up to 10M input tokens and 800K output tokens per minute.
Colossus 1 capacity will be prioritized for Claude Pro and Max subscribers. The companies also expressed interest in deploying gigawatt-scale AI nodes in orbit, though this remains a declaration rather than a signed agreement.