On May 6, Claude Code's five-hour rate limits doubled. The peak-hour throttling that had been frustrating paid users for months disappeared. Most people noticed the change and moved on without looking too closely at what caused it. The answer is strange enough that I think it is worth looking at closely. Anthropic rented the entire Colossus 1 supercomputer cluster in Memphis, Tennessee from SpaceX. That is 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs and 300 megawatts of power capacity, coming online within a month of the announcement. The reason it is strange: three months before signing this deal, Elon Musk had posted on X that Anthropic's AI was "misanthropic and evil" and told the company it was "doomed." Let me walk through what actually happened, what it means practically, and what I think it signals about where we are in the AI compute story. What Colossus 1 Actually Is Most people have heard the name but do not have a clear picture of the scale.…