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Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

lostmsu wrote: post #288
breadsniffer wrote: post #283

Earlier quoted context omitted.

from perplexity deep research: "Colossus‑related gas‑turbine power plants have been run in ways alleged to violate the Clean Air Act, in already over‑polluted Black and low‑income communities near Memphis, and Anthropic has now become the main user of that infrastructure." sources: https://www.tba.org/?pg=Hastings2025AIX (Tech, Toxins, and Memphis: Evaluating the Environmental Footprint of the xAI Facility)

Any specifics? What are they doing and what statutes are allegedly being violated?

Report from February 2026:

  The independent study, conducted by EmPower Analytics Group and commissioned
  by the Southern Environmental Law Center, was led by a Harvard-trained 
  environmental health scientist Dr. Michael Cork and shows that operation
  of xAI’s proposed permanent gas turbines would measurably increase 
  health risks for families throughout the area—even in places as far away
  as Germantown and North Memphis.
https://www.memphiscap.org/

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

timmmmmmay wrote: post #243
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #77

Colossus 1 datacenter is the one using illegal power, is poisoning the air for poor communities near Memphis, and is potentially poisoning the water. It's likely the additional demand on the grid will cause massive blackouts during extreme weather events, putting residents at further risk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)#Envir... So you can put Anthropic on your list of companies that like to t…

it's in a former appliance factory that's right next to two pre-existing TVA power plants, a Nucor steel mill, and a sewage treatment facility. you've been lied to about how close it is to a residential area, just look at a map

"The independent study, conducted by EmPower Analytics Group and commissioned by the Southern Environmental Law Center, was led by a Harvard-trained environmental health scientist Dr. Michael Cork and shows that operation of xAI’s proposed permanent gas turbines would measurably increase health risks for families throughout the area—even in places as far away as Germantown and North Memphis." - https://www.memphiscap.org/

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Post by 0xbadcafebee »

MagicMoonlight wrote: post #181
0xbadcafebee wrote: post #77

Colossus 1 datacenter is the one using illegal power, is poisoning the air for poor communities near Memphis, and is potentially poisoning the water. It's likely the additional demand on the grid will cause massive blackouts during extreme weather events, putting residents at further risk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)#Envir... So you can put Anthropic on your list of companies that like to t…

How would a data centre poison the water? They don’t produce any chemicals or do anything.

This is the specific water pollution issue: https://www.protectouraquifer.org/issues/xai-supercomputer

The plan was to develop a recycled wastewater facility, which will pull arsenic from contaminated shallow acquifers, and pump that into the drinking water supply's acquifers.

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Post by ericd »

ceejayoz wrote: post #363
ericd wrote: post #346

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All of that has been repeatedly addressed in anything that discusses it, if you care to try to understand. It has ~nothing to do with available space, the US grid can’t handle the current rate of expansion. It’s bad enough that apparently Span, the smart electrical panel company, is pitching a box full of Blackwells that’ll sit outside new construction homes and use all the headroom on residential 200A circuits. Spac…

> the US grid can’t handle the current rate of expansion This is a self defeating argument. Neither can space! Any scenario in which you can get data centers and power into orbit is easier on land.

Not quite, I'm rooting for the solar/battery microgrids down here, one of the startups I've invested in is working on those, but you don't really even need batteries for panels in a dawn-dusk sun synchronous orbit, which is a pretty huge advantage. Also, there aren't weeks where you have 1/4 the output because it's just cloudy all week, and your output isn't crushed during winter.

And the hardest part of my home solar install, by far, was the counterparties (inspectors, power company, and subcontractors). My understanding is that it's much worse when you're trying to get a grid scale install online, the interconnection queue is currently years long. This avoids most counterparties except the ones they're already routinely dealing with.

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Post by z3ratul163071 »

0xbadcafebee wrote: post #77

Colossus 1 datacenter is the one using illegal power, is poisoning the air for poor communities near Memphis, and is potentially poisoning the water. It's likely the additional demand on the grid will cause massive blackouts during extreme weather events, putting residents at further risk. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)#Envir... So you can put Anthropic on your list of companies that like to t…

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Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Post by consumer451 »

1234letshaveatw wrote: post #85
consumer451 wrote: post #37

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I would think that stomaching Musk would be the hard part. Just goes to show how compute-constrained Anthropic is at this time. He literally did a Nazi salute on stage, twice! Check the video, and tell me what you see. edit: https://giphy.com/gifs/elon-musk-nazi-salute-8W0ItVv7T1kRdwb...

meh, he's no Graham Platner

See, if you have philosophical/morale standards and don't just subscribe to tribalism, then you could say: f both those morons.

Could you join me in that statement?

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Post by zelon88 »

> We’re very intentional about where we’ll add capacity—partnering with democratic countries whose legal and regulatory frameworks support investments of this scale, and where the supply chain on which our compute depends—hardware, networking, and facilities—will be secure.

*Buys compute from actual fascist Elon Musk in a failing democracy during the death throes of late state capitalism.

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Post by z3ratul163071 »

skeledrew wrote: post #35

Oh. Just as I'm in the process of migrating to Pi+Qwen (local). This was probably going to be my last month on the Pro sub as I'm seriously fed up with the limits and degradation that started weeks after I signed up. Let's see how this shakes out.

we all are. thank god for alibaba, seems all that crap we bought from aliexpress served some indirect purpose.

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Post by sigmar »

nl wrote: post #339

Say what you like about Sam Altman, but given how Anthropic is scrambling to sign capacity deals for compute we can sure say he was right about the capcity build out needed.

Scrambling? Seems to me xAI built too much capacity (for what they can use in 2026). Does that mean OpenAI built the right amount? I don't see how this proves that just because we see one AI company willing to sell compute. We don't even know the terms/pricing.

Re: Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

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Post by zbentley »

dgfl wrote: post #230
Sammi wrote: post #192

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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.

The existence of starlink proves that this is false. Look at most current pitches, they don’t talk about GW-class monsters anymore. There’s absolutely nothing stopping a 20-30kW satellite bus the size of starlink (or I guess up to 100kW? once starship is available - it’s all about payload fairing diameter) from hosting ~1 rack of compute and antennas. The economics may or may not make sense, we’ll have to see. There’…

"Space datacenter" -> overpriced starlink with some shitty edge compute -> "look guys, we built a space datacenter; earnings results to follow" -> number go up.
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