A Company recently announced that the 5-hour usage quota rate of all Claude Code paid subscription users has been doubled, and the peak hour rate limit of Claude Code Pro and Claude Max accounts has been cancelled, and the Claude Opus API call rate for developers has also been greatly increased. The root cause of these changes is that Company A has found a new computing power cluster.
It has been reported that the utilization rate of Elon Musk’s xAI artificial intelligence data center is too low, so these data centers may rent computing power to other companies. The computing power support that Company A received this time comes from xAI’s supercomputing center in Memphis, USA. Specifically, Company A will be able to use it. All 300 megawatts of computing power in the Colossus 1 data center.
Due to the extremely rapid growth in the use of Claude Code, Company A has been facing a serious shortage of computing power for a long time. In order to alleviate the shortage of computing power, Company A engineers have come up with various methods and the results have brought a bad experience to developers. Therefore, the final solution is to find more computing power, which will also help Company A to continue to maintain rapid expansion of its products.
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After receiving the support of computing power, Company A also generously directly increased the quota rate of Claude paid subscriber users. As mentioned at the beginning of this article, Claude Code’s 5-hour usage quota was directly doubled. This policy applies to Claude Pro, Claude Max, Claude Team, and seat-based enterprise edition packages.