Anthropic partnering with SpaceX to lease their Colossus 1 data center (over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs).
While that on it's own is interesting, the astonishing side effect of that is a sharp increase in usage limits in paid Claude plans and their APIs.
The following three changes—all effective today—are aimed at improving the experience of using Claude for our most dedicated customers.
- First, we’re doubling Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans.
- Second, we’re removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max accounts.
- Third, we’re raising our API rate limits considerably for Claude Opus models.
I think people will generally appreciate this too:
Finally, we recently made a commitment to cover any consumer electricity price increases caused by our data centers in the US. As part of our international expansion, we’re exploring ways to extend that commitment to new jurisdictions, as well as partnering with local leaders to invest back into the communities that host our facilities.