Updated Usage Thresholds for Claude Users
Effective immediately, Anthropic is implementing three key adjustments to enhance service availability for its most active users. The company will double the existing five-hour rate limits across its Claude Code platform for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise tiers. Additionally, peak-hour throttling restrictions on Claude Code will be eliminated for Pro and Max subscribers. For developers utilizing the Claude API, Anthropic has significantly increased throughput thresholds for Claude Opus models, updating previously published caps.
Major Compute Infrastructure Agreements
On May 6, 2026, the firm announced a partnership that will grant it access to the entire processing capacity of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 facility. This arrangement delivers over 300 megawatts of power and more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs, with deployment scheduled to begin within the current month. The influx of resources will directly enhance service reliability for Claude Pro and Claude Max users.
This collaboration complements a broader portfolio of infrastructure commitments. Anthropic has secured a potential five-gigawatt agreement with Amazon, featuring nearly one gigawatt of fresh capacity by late 2026. A separate five-gigawatt contract with Google and Broadcom is slated to come online in 2027. The company also highlighted a strategic alliance with Microsoft and NVIDIA encompassing $30 billion in Azure processing power, alongside a $50 billion investment in domestic AI infrastructure developed with Fluidstack.
Anthropic continues to operate Claude across a diverse hardware ecosystem, including AWS Trainium chips, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA accelerators. The company also indicated a growing interest in collaborating with SpaceX to establish gigawatt-scale artificial intelligence processing capabilities in orbit.
Global Expansion and Regulatory Compliance
As enterprise clients in heavily regulated sectors such as finance, healthcare, and public administration demand localized data processing, Anthropic is directing a portion of its expansion efforts overseas. The recently announced Amazon partnership will incorporate additional inference capabilities across European and Asian markets.
The company emphasized a deliberate approach to infrastructure placement, prioritizing partnerships with stable democracies that maintain robust legal frameworks capable of supporting large-scale technology investments. Anthropic also stressed the importance of securing the hardware, networking, and facility supply chains required for these operations.
On the consumer impact front, Anthropic recently pledged to absorb any utility rate hikes triggered by its American data centers. As international operations scale, the firm is evaluating how to replicate this financial protection in other regions while working with local officials to fund community development initiatives in host areas.
