GitHub pauses Copilot sign-ups as AI coding drives up compute demand

GitHub is pausing new individual Copilot subscriptions while it tightens usage caps for existing users.

Advanced Opus models are being restricted to higher-tier plans as agentic AI workloads drive up compute demand.

The move highlights how popular AI coding tools can run into infrastructure limits as usage scales.

It may push vendors toward stricter quotas, token-based billing, or new pricing tiers.