Anthropic has struck a deal to take over the full computing capacity of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center in Memphis: 220,000+ NVIDIA GPUs and more than 300 megawatts of power. The infrastructure is expected to come online within a month — and the rate limit changes for Claude users are already rolling out.

This is a direct response to something developers have been complaining about for months: hitting Claude's ceilings constantly, especially on Opus and Claude Code.

"Higher limits, more capacity, and a path to orbital AI compute" — Anthropic's announcement framing it as infrastructure, not just a business deal.

What actually changed

Claude Code 5-hour limits double for Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise plans — within a month

Peak-hour throttling removed entirely for Pro and Max subscribers

Claude Opus API limits jump substantially across all tiers:

Tier Input tokens/min Output tokens/min

1 30k → 500k 8k → 80k

2 450k → 2M 90k → 200k

3 800k → 5M 160k → 400k

4 2M → 10M 400k → 800k

That's a 10–16×…