Anthropic Secures 300MW SpaceX Colossus Compute Deal, Doubles Claude Code Rate Limits

Summary

Anthropic has signed a compute partnership with SpaceX to access all capacity at the Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee — more than 300 megawatts and approximately 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs — with deployment expected within a month. The deal complements existing agreements with Amazon (up to 5 GW), Google and Broadcom (5 GW beginning 2027), Microsoft/NVIDIA ($30B Azure), and Fluidstack ($50B US infrastructure), signaling that Anthropic is aggressively assembling compute at a scale that rival