Live data from Hacker News

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

anthropic.com

441–450 of 519 posts

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

#441
post #332

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you worried about Google too? They're selling compute. Same with Microsoft, and Amazon. As far as I know Anthropic is really the only one that's compute-bound.

Google, Microsoft, and Amazon's business model include selling compute - SpaceX, not so much.

Add Lidl to your list.

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

#442
post #25

> As part of this agreement, we have also expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity. Anthropic is either taking this space business more serious than the general public, or posting this sentence was part of the deal to get the compute.

[flagged]

Has anthropic said Elon is evil or why else is this relevant?

Ironically it is Elon who has said that anthropic is evil:

https://gizmodo.com/elon-musk-teams-up-with-anthropic-a-comp...

And if you need to be reminded: https://hsph.harvard.edu/news/usaid-shutdown-has-led-to-hund...

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

#443
post #25

> As part of this agreement, we have also expressed interest in partnering with SpaceX to develop multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity. Anthropic is either taking this space business more serious than the general public, or posting this sentence was part of the deal to get the compute.

[flagged]

They're in every discussion even remotely related to anything Elon Musk.

Everything Elon does is somehow stupid or evil. Actually, that reminds me of Thunderf00t YouTube streams where he was (or still is?) betting Starship would fail miserably every test flight, and he'd talk about how evil and stupid Elon is for 3 hours with chatters, watch the flight then say something like "it's still bullshit."

I think it's a mixture of cope and a little bit psyop from adversaries like Russia who are being crippled in Ukraine because of Starlink.

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

#444

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…

Are you going to stop using Claude Code then?

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

#445

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Sure but acquiring enough land to build solar profitably near a DC that can hook up to the big US interconnects is very expensive and will often be blocked by residents. If you want to build solar where there are few people and cheap input costs, then you need to transmit the power to the DC.

I keep hearing about brand new data centers they want to create. Seems reasonable to go to sunny, enormous, business friendly Texas and surround the data center site with acres of solar panels, batteries, emergency gas, and whatever sized grid connection you can get approved immediately. If the DC is for training or text inference, latency seems irrelevant, so go where you can quickly plop down power.

Texas is actually absorbing a lot of the US's new generation capacity (though the grid there remains dirty)

It's fraught to make a DC for a single purpose because it reduces the value of the DC. A DC that serves multiple purposes can handle other workloads. Moreover even if inference is slow, latency does still matter, and it costs quite a bit to light up net capacity (you still have to run fiber to an interconnect and depending on how far you are, this can get expensive fast.)

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

#446
post #261

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/External_Active_Thermal_Contro... All that gets you 70kW of cooling. Radiating to vacuum isn't very efficient.

Cooling space station is very different from cooling off chips. One requires extensive piping, other - a simple radiator.

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

#449

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…

Who cares about Memphis! We need more AI bro! /s

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

#450
post #49

Doubling the five-hour rate limits is merely a marketing stunt if the weekly rates are not also doubled. It simply means that you can reach the weekly limits in three days instead of five.

It's not, because I've never hit my weekly limits because of the very restrictive 5 hours limits. Let's see if I really hit my weekly limits now.

However you see it, it's an improvement for the consumer.

Post reply on HN