[Wojtkie]

Is that why Anthropic recently gave out free credits for use in off-hours? Possibly an attempt to more evenly distribute their compute load throughout the day?

[ac29]

That was the carrot, but it was followed immediately by the stick (5 hour session limits were halved during peak hours)

[troupo]

> Is that why Anthropic recently gave out free credits for use in off-hours?

That was the carrot for the stick. The limits and the issues were never officially recognized or communicated. Neither have been the "off-hours credits". You would only know about them if you logged in to your dashboard. When is the last time you logged in there?

[DaedalusII]

i suspect they get cheap off peak electricity and compute is cheaper at those times

[jedberg]

That's not really how datacenter power works. It's usually a bulk buy with a 95th percentile usage.

[cheeze]

I think it's a lot simpler than that. At peak, gpus are all running hot. During low volume, they aren't.