Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

Post by sidrag22 » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:44 PM UTC

solenoid0937 wrote: post #193

sidrag22 wrote: post #87

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I've found with opus 4.6 which im still stubbornly using i can burn about 10% of the weekly within a 5 hour window with my workflow. Mentally i think about the weekly usage in terms of usage per day so about 14% per day which results in me not using that much early in the week so i can kinda "burn freely" later on. which leads me to a spot where usually on the final two days im sorta thinking about how can i expend t…

> Mentally i think about the weekly usage in terms of usage per day so about 14% per day 20%, there are 5 work days in a week, not 7.

Post by Gagarin1917 » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:47 PM UTC

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Help me understand why not? I know solar power generation in space, and "beaming" the power back, was a naive idea. But this would actually use the power up there, mostly for training, but also for inference. That claim seems reasonable. I have zero knowledge of the economics of launching and maintaining satellites though.

As I understand it, the problem is cooling. There isn't any medium to take away the heat, so the only option is to slowly radiate it away.

Post by joe_mamba » Wed, May 06, 2026, 10:53 PM UTC

lijok wrote: post #261

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Anyone who has googled just once to ask if datacenters in space make any sense, has found out they don't because they can't get rid of heat. That leaves only two kinds of people left who are still talking excitedly about datacenters in space: The uninformed and the grifters.

what do you mean they can’t get rid of heat? radiators exist

Post by wbxp99 » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:00 PM UTC

small_model wrote: post #239

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Anyone who has googled just once to ask if datacenters in space make any sense, has found out they don't because they can't get rid of heat. That leaves only two kinds of people left who are still talking excitedly about datacenters in space: The uninformed and the grifters.

SpaceX have presented on this and it's fairly straightforward and they already do it with starlink satellites, just at a larger scale. Sound like you are the uniformed one (or an EDS victim)

Post by 23rf » Wed, May 06, 2026, 11:06 PM UTC

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I love how this line of thinking completely avoids the issue re. improvements in local models. I suppose if you are desperate to justify a large investment this what you would do - frame the story in a particular way.

Local models are always going to be useless unless compute get significantly cheaper, and it's not. TSMC might literally run out of capacity to build any consumer compute product. Once computer constraints ease up, you will see much larger models. The reason LLM seems to have stalled a bit is because there just not enough compute. You have more people using AI which requires more compute, and you want to build larger…