Anthropic Inks SpaceX Compute Deal: 220,000 GPUs and $30B Revenue Run Rate
Anthropic announced a compute partnership with SpaceX on May 6, 2026, securing access to the entire Colossus 1 data center—over 300 MW and 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs—within the month. Simultaneously, the company doubled usage limits across all Claude subscription plans.
Revenue Milestone
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate has crossed $30 billion, up from roughly $9 billion at the end of 2025. This explosive growth created compute pressure that the SpaceX deal is designed to relieve.
Rate Limit Increases
- Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise: rate limits doubled
- Claude Code five-hour limits: doubled for Pro and Max
- Opus API limits: raised separately
- Peak-hour reductions: fully removed for Pro and Max
The Unusual Partnership
Elon Musk has repeatedly and publicly criticized Anthropic, calling it "doomed to become the opposite of its name." That SpaceX is now a key compute partner for Claude is notable. Beyond near-term capacity, Anthropic also expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX to develop gigawatt-scale orbital AI compute capacity.
See the Anthropic announcement and Bloomberg reporting for details.
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