Anthropic + SpaceX: 300MW Compute Partnership Adds 220K+ NVIDIA GPUs Within May — Largest Single Capacity Expansion for Any AI Lab

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Announced at Code with Claude May 6, Anthropic secured a 300+ megawatt compute partnership with SpaceX bringing over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs online within the month. This is the largest single capacity expansion by any AI lab and directly addresses the rate limiting and availability constraints Claude users experience. Signals that compute access, not model quality, is the current bottleneck for scaling AI agent infrastructure.