Anthropic to lease Musk's entire Colossus 1 cluster, doubling Claude Code usage caps
"Just months ago, Elon Musk was posting that Anthropic “hates Western Civilization” and should be renamed “Misanthropic”. Now, he’s renting them his entire Colossus 1 compute cluster. The new deal pulls off three things at once: patching Claude's compute problems, hurting Musk's nemesis OAI by feeding its biggest rival, and signaling a new compute-landlord business for SpaceXAI even as Grok keeps chasing the frontier. Anthropic will lease all of Colossus 1, a 300+ MW Memphis supercluster, with more than 220K Nvidia GPUs coming online within the month. Anthropic said Claude Code’s 5-hour usage caps are now doubling across paid tiers, with additional increases via API and no more peak-hour restrictions."
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