ChipsMay 6, 2026via The Decoder
Anthropic taps SpaceX's Colossus-1 data center for 220,000 GPUs to power Claude
Why it matters
Anthropic is making a massive infrastructure bet to scale Claude's training and inference capacity, signaling aggressive competition in the compute arms race and directly challenging OpenAI's infrastructure dominance.
Key signals
- 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs allocated to Anthropic
- 300+ megawatts of power capacity
- Full takeover of SpaceX's Colossus-1 data center
- Expected online within one month
- Claude Code rate limits doubled
- API limits raised for Opus models
- Partnership with SpaceX infrastructure
The hook
220,000 GPUs. Anthropic just secured SpaceX's entire Colossus-1 data center—300MW of compute coming online in 30 days.
Anthropic is taking over the full computing capacity of SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, more than 300 megawatts and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, expected to come online within a month. The company is also doubling rate limits for Claude Code and significantly raising API limits for Opus models.