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by ykl 22 days ago
At the time of the announcement IIRC the deal was only for Colossus 1. Is Anthropic also leasing Colossus 2 new?

At the time the consensus narrative was that SpaceX no longer needed Colossus 1 for Grok and that was why it could be leased to Anthropic while Colossus 2 would handle Grok training and inference. Does Anthropic also leasing Colossus 2 change this?
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impulser_ 22 days ago
They are. This is from their "Chief Compute Officer".

https://x.com/nottombrown/status/2057194829986300375

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jprd 22 days ago
Right. This compute still being powered by an illegal amount of gas turbines in a residential neighborhood?

Claude is eating so much compute, the threat of that power being tuned down by lawsuit (rightfully) is worth the risk to Anthropic in the short-term. Instead of declaring "bubble", I'm just going to say that's so crazy.

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ACCount37 22 days ago
Colossus 1 is in an industrial area, next door to a grid scale natural gas power plant. One that's fully operational.
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dbalatero 22 days ago
Then why do they keep getting sued, then going one state over and running the same playbook that got them sued in the previous state?

https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-sues-xai-illegal-pollution-...

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gpm 22 days ago
Or SpaceX is absorbing the risk should that power be turned off... still morally shitty but not obviously economically so.
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