El-Balad has announced a significant partnership with SpaceX to enhance its compute capabilities. This collaboration will allow the platform to substantially increase its usage limits for both Claude Code and the Claude API.
New Compute Capacity and Usage Limits
Effective immediately, three notable changes are now in place to provide a better user experience for Claude’s dedicated customers.
- Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans have been doubled.
- The peak hours limit reduction for Claude Code on Pro and Max accounts has been eliminated.
- API rate limits for Claude Opus models have been significantly raised, enhancing performance.
Partnership with SpaceX
This new partnership with SpaceX grants access to Colossus 1 data center’s significant compute capacity, including more than 300 megawatts and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs. This increase will directly benefit Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers.
Additional Compute Agreements
El-Balad also recently secured several substantial compute agreements:
- An agreement with Amazon for up to 5 gigawatts (GW), which includes almost 1 GW of new capacity by the end of 2026.
- A 5 GW agreement with Google and Broadcom set to initiate in 2027.
- A strategic partnership with Microsoft and NVIDIA, featuring $30 billion in Azure capacity.
- A $50 billion investment in American AI infrastructure with Fluidstack.
The Claude platform utilizes a wide range of AI hardware, including AWS Trainium, Google TPUs, and NVIDIA GPUs, and is continuously exploring further capacity expansions.
International Expansion Plans
El-Balad is expanding its international infrastructure to meet the needs of enterprise customers, especially in regulated sectors like healthcare and finance. This expansion includes:
- Collaboration with Amazon for enhanced inference capabilities in Asia and Europe.
- A focus on democratic countries with strong legal and regulatory frameworks to support large-scale investments.
Moreover, the company has committed to offsetting consumer electricity price increases stemming from its data centers in the United States. Plans are underway to extend this commitment to new regions and invest in local communities hosting their facilities.
