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van der Waals crystals exhibit excellent material performance when exfoliated to few-atomic-layer thickness. In contrast, the van der Waals thin films more than 10 nm thick are believed to show bulk properties, in which outstanding material performance is rarely found. Here we report the largest anomalous Hall conductivity observed so far in a 170 nm van der Waals ferromagnetic 1T-CrTe₂ flake, which reaches 67,000 Ω^–1 cm^–1. Such a colossal anomalous Hall conductivity in 1T-CrTe₂ is dominated by the extrinsic skew scattering process rather than the intrinsic Berry phase effect, as evidenced by the linear relation between the anomalous Hall conductivity and the longitudinal conductivity. Defying the dilemma of mutually exclusive large anomalous Hall angle and high electric conductivity for most ferromagnets, 1T-CrTe₂ achieves both in a thin film sample. Considering the shared physics of the anomalous Hall …