Claude Announces SpaceX Compute Deal and Doubled Claude Code Rate Limits

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Screenshot of two X posts from the verified @claudeai account. The first post announces a partnership with @SpaceX that will 'substantially increase our compute capacity', enabling raised usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API (2.2K replies, 6.6K reposts, 48K likes, 3.1M views). The threaded follow-up lists the changes effective today: 1) doubling Claude Code's 5-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, and Team plans; 2) removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max plans; and 3) substantially raising API rate limits for Opus models (513 replies, 2.3K reposts, 16K likes, 869K views). The content is notable for developers who live inside rate-limit windows, and for the eyebrow-raising pairing of Anthropic with SpaceX as a compute provider

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Anonymous ★ Top Pick The industry's hardest capacity-planning problem, solved the enterprise way: when you can't scale up or scale out, scale orbital

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The industry's hardest capacity-planning problem, solved the enterprise way: when you can't scale up or scale out, scale orbital
Anonymous

Nothing says "defensible AI moat" like enabling multi-tenancy for your main competitor.
dev_meme 3mo

Spaceship shareholders paid 250B for this btw 🌚🤝
dev_meme 3mo

Just to make it super clear It’s not just same non-busy capacity of Grok, it’s much more than that We’ve signed an agreement with SpaceX to use all of the compute capacity at their Colossus 1 data center. This gives us access to more than 300 megawatts of new capacity (over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs) within the month. This additional capacity will directly improve capacity for Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers.
1. @SamsonovAnton 3mo
  
  Do they measure compute capacity in watts and unspecified GPU models, rather than FLOPS or some generic OPS at least? 😳
  
  @ZmEYkA_3310 3mo
  
  Big number go up
  
  @lb_ii 3mo
  
  They are Americans, it's always number of feet&hamburgers instead of FLOPS and meters
dev_meme 3mo

I mean, I’m all-in for as long as we can have a chance to get back something similar to Opus 4.5 that we had at the end of December 2025 but it’s unlikely to happen anyway 🥲
1. @death_by_oom 3mo
  
  The enterprise market is growing faster than they can produce new compute, and they will always prioritise enterprise, I imagine the usage limits are going to go down by the end of the year and the prices are going to go up for individual users
2. @ketter256 3mo
  
  The economy of hope
アレックス 3mo

spacex remembers they're the only AI company that actually builds stuff
1. @summitbc 3mo
  
  And powers it with illegal gas turbines which literally poison the air we all breathe, giving nearby communities higher rates of cancer in the future https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk-xai-datacenter-memphis Cool! Good
  
  @DerKnerd 3mo
  
  The sad thing is, I am not even surprised
  
  @ZmEYkA_3310 3mo
  
  Idk, sounds like a capitalism issue if buying gas for turbines is cheaper than doing nuclear
  
  @summitbc 3mo
  
  i mean obviously the whole incentive structure for organizing production in society has gotta be pretty fucked up if that's the case yeah
  
  @TheFloofyFloof 3mo
  
  Well safety is a concern too. a gas turbine blowing is small in comparison
  
  @ZmEYkA_3310 3mo
  
  What? Nuclear is literally the safest and greenest form of energy (apart from water dams)
  
  @TheFloofyFloof 3mo
  
  would you trust random unregulated companies to build reactors?
  
  @ZmEYkA_3310 3mo
  
  Fella, im saying that the margins are so big on nuclear electricity in the us its easier to buy turbines and and gas, and thats a pricing issue that should be controlled by the goverment
  
  @DerKnerd 3mo
  
  No it isn't, greenest and safest is solar.
  
  @ZmEYkA_3310 3mo
  
  Can we count production of the panels in please 😕
  
  @TheFloofyFloof 3mo
  
  no
  
  @DerKnerd 3mo
  
  if we count building and storage of the nuclear waste
  
  @TheFloofyFloof 3mo
  
  can't that be reused to make more fuel
  
  @DerKnerd 3mo
  
  it might be, but there is no proper scaling for that as of now
  
  @ketter256 3mo
  
  thats how fuel works, you burn it, energy goes out, replace the energy in it and its good to go again
  
  @TheFloofyFloof 3mo
  
  but can it melt steel beams?
  
  @ketter256 3mo
  
  ... and jews melted steel beams
  
  @ZmEYkA_3310 3mo
  
  Yeah, if we count that then nuclear is greener
  
  @DerKnerd 3mo
  
  still no :D the standard way to handle nuclear waste is, well we have no long term solution. And concrete is extremely bad for the environment
  
  @ZmEYkA_3310 3mo
  
  Your entire lifetime will generate 14 grams of nuclear waste dw about it lmao, its long term viable
  
  @nightingazer 3mo
  
  dams fuck the water ecosystem up pretty badly, so no, dams are not greener
  
  @blue_bonsai 3mo
  
  I suppose so. After all having gas now is easier than having to build new reactors, both in terms of time and resources spent.
  
  @ferriego 3mo
  
  Fisrt time?

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