Overview
- SpaceXAI is leasing its Colossus 1 supercomputer in Memphis to Anthropic, giving it access to more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and over 300 megawatts of power with full access expected within about a month.
- Anthropic is raising usage caps now, doubling the 5‑hour Claude Code session limit for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans, removing peak‑hour throttling for Pro and Max, and lifting Claude Opus API token throughput roughly 10–16× across tiers.
- The Colossus 1 cluster was built for Elon Musk’s xAI and is now under SpaceXAI, and Anthropic has secured exclusive use of the system.
- Crypto Briefing reports a four‑year lease worth about $5 billion per year and says the cluster had been running at roughly 11% utilization before the deal.
- Anthropic says it is exploring orbital AI compute with SpaceX and is broadening a multi‑vendor strategy, a shift that could ease developer bottlenecks for larger and faster agent workflows.