Anthropic and Elon Musk Strike Unexpected Data Center Deal

That apparently hasn't stopped the billionaire from doing business with the company. Musk's SpaceX has signed a data center deal that will give Anthropic access to more than 200,000 Nvidia GPUs worth of power at its Colossus 1 supercomputer facility in Tennessee.

The partnership will give Anthropic additional firepower to "directly improve capacity for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers," SpaceX said in a website post. "As part of this agreement, Anthropic also expressed interest in partnering to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity."

Because of this deal, Anthropic said in its own post, the company is raising usage limits for users across some of its products. The changes, effective immediately, double Claude Code rate limits for users of Claude on Pro, Max, Team and seat-based ...