Anthropic announced a partnership with SpaceX to expand its compute capacity and said that, together with other recent capacity agreements, it is increasing usage limits for its Claude models. The company published these changes and infrastructure updates on May 6, 2026.
What changes for users
Three immediate changes, effective today, aim to improve the experience for heavier Claude users:
- Claude Code: Anthropic is doubling five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans.
- Peak hours reduction removed: Anthropic is removing the peak-hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max accounts.
- Claude Opus API: The company is significantly raising API rate limits for Claude Opus models; the announcement references a table with the specific updated limits.
These adjustments are intended to provide more predictable and larger capacity for intensive users and enterprise customers.
New compute partnership: SpaceX Colossus 1
Anthropic said it has signed an agreement with SpaceX to use all compute capacity at the Colossus 1 data center. According to the company, the deal provides access to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity (over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs) within the month. Anthropic said this additional capacity will directly benefit Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers.
Other capacity agreements
The SpaceX deal complements several other significant announcements Anthropic listed:
- An up-to-5 gigawatt agreement with Amazon, which includes nearly 1 GW of new capacity by the end of 2026.
- A 5 GW agreement with Google and Broadcom, scheduled to start coming online in 2027.
- A strategic partnership with Microsoft and NVIDIA that includes $30 billion of Azure capacity.
- A $50 billion investment in American AI infrastructure with Fluidstack.
Anthropic trains and runs Claude on various AI hardware — AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs — and continues to seek opportunities to bring more capacity online.
As part of the SpaceX agreement, Anthropic also said it has expressed interest in partnering on development of multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity.
International expansion and regulatory considerations
Anthropic noted that enterprise customers, especially in regulated industries such as financial services, healthcare, and government, increasingly require in-region infrastructure to meet compliance and data residency needs. Accordingly, some capacity expansion will be international: the Amazon collaboration includes additional inference capacity in Asia and Europe.
The company said it is deliberate about where it adds capacity, partnering in democratic countries whose legal and regulatory frameworks support investments at this scale and where the hardware, networking, and facilities supply chain is secure.
Community impact and consumer electricity commitment
Anthropic reiterated a prior commitment to cover any consumer electricity price increases caused by its US data centers. As it expands internationally, the company is exploring ways to extend that commitment to new jurisdictions and to work with local leaders to reinvest in the communities that host its facilities.
Why this matters
Access to hundreds of megawatts and hundreds of thousands of GPUs through deals like the one with SpaceX — together with large cloud agreements — speeds availability of capacity for large models, which can improve performance and reliability for paid Claude users. At the same time, siting capacity internationally and addressing regulatory and community impacts will be important to implement these expansions responsibly.
