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title: "Higher usage limits and a SpaceX compute deal"
description: "An agreement with SpaceX will give the company access to all compute capacity at the Colossus 1 data center, adding more than 300 megawatts and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within the month. Combined with other compute partnerships, the expansion supports higher usage limits: Claude Code five-hour limits double for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, peak-hour reductions end for Pro and Max, and Claude Opus API limits rise considerably. The company says the new capacity will directly improve service for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers while it trains and runs Claude on AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs. It is also expanding inference capacity in Asia and Europe and exploring orbital AI compute with SpaceX."
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# Higher usage limits and a SpaceX compute deal

[Anthropic](https://yomu.fyi/company/anthropic) · Sep 9, 2026

**Type:** Announcement

## Summary

An agreement with SpaceX will give the company access to all compute capacity at the Colossus 1 data center, adding more than 300 megawatts and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within the month. Combined with other compute partnerships, the expansion supports higher usage limits: Claude Code five-hour limits double for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, peak-hour reductions end for Pro and Max, and Claude Opus API limits rise considerably. The company says the new capacity will directly improve service for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers while it trains and runs Claude on AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs. It is also expanding inference capacity in Asia and Europe and exploring orbital AI compute with SpaceX.

## Context

The company says increased compute capacity is needed to improve the experience for its most dedicated Claude customers and to meet enterprise requirements for in-region infrastructure, compliance, and data residency.

## Approach / What changed

The company is combining a SpaceX partnership for Colossus 1 capacity with agreements involving Amazon, Google and Broadcom, Microsoft and NVIDIA, and Fluidstack. It is using AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs, expanding inference in Asia and Europe, and changing Claude Code and Claude Opus API limits.

## Takeaways

- The SpaceX agreement covers all compute capacity at the Colossus 1 data center, providing more than 300 megawatts and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within the month.
- Claude Code five-hour rate limits are doubling for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans, while peak-hour reductions are being removed for Pro and Max accounts.
- Some capacity expansion will support in-region inference in Asia and Europe, reflecting enterprise compliance and data residency requirements.

**Tags:** [AI](https://yomu.fyi/topic/ai), [API](https://yomu.fyi/topic/api), [Claude](https://yomu.fyi/topic/claude), [GPU](https://yomu.fyi/topic/gpu)

- Source: [Anthropic](https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex)
- Source URL: https://www.anthropic.com/news/higher-limits-spacex
- Ingested by Yomu: 2026-09-10T04:04:44.687Z

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