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Anthropic Taps SpaceX’s Colossus 1 to Ease Claude Capacity Crunch

The move gives Anthropic near-term compute to ease shortages from a sudden surge in Claude usage.

Overview

  • Anthropic, which announced the SpaceX pact Wednesday at its Code with Claude event, will get Colossus 1’s full capacity within a month.
  • The Memphis facility provides more than 300 megawatts of power and access to over 220,000 Nvidia GPUs, with some inference work shifting there in the coming days.
  • Anthropic raised limits for paying customers by doubling Claude Code’s five-hour quotas, removing peak-hour caps for Pro and Max, and lifting Opus API rates.
  • CEO Dario Amodei said Q1 revenue and usage ran about 80 times higher than a year ago, which strained the company’s compute supply.
  • The Information reported Anthropic agreed to spend about $200 billion on Google Cloud over five years, with larger multi-vendor capacity slated to arrive in 2026 and 2027.