Anthropic is expanding to Colossus2. Will use GB200

Post by schmookeeg » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:16 AM UTC

monster_truck wrote: post #84

robwwilliams wrote: post #76

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The newer location is about 3 miles southwest of the Memphis Airport (MEM), one of the world’s largest cargo airports and the center of FedEx operations (500 take-off and landings per day most concentrated in a 6 h FedEx window with lots of engines running on ramps and that produces about 2000 tons of NOx per year). I live about 18 miles downwind of the new Colossus sites, the airport, and lots of truck logistics sit…

Your math is way wrong. The airport is and will be far, far worse. You didn't even mention all of the lead

Post by coliveira » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:19 AM UTC

tristanj wrote: post #49

aurareturn wrote: post #2

More signs that xAI might be giving up on the AGI race. xAI let Cursor train a model on Colossus 2, gave the entire Colossus1 to Anthropic, and is now giving compute in Colossus2 to Anthropic as well.

Bad read on the situation. xAI has too much compute and not enough customers using it. They have around half a million GPUs, some of which are stolen from Tesla, running at 11% utilization. xAI predicted more people would be using Grok, but Grok is not a SOTA model & users primarily want to use SOTA models. They have excess capacity and it makes sense to rent out GPUs to other customers while they improve their model…

Post by runako » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:25 AM UTC

bwfan123 wrote: post #78

guluarte wrote: post #66

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I think they overestimated the demand for Grok, which is mostly useless, and now they have too much compute on hand.

I see this as a huge warning sign. If a frontier ai lab is in this position of renting their own capacity, imagine how much overcapacity there is in the system. Outside of VC money, and circular financing, the only external money coming into ai are into open-ai, and anthropic via their subscriptions and APIs.

Post by seydor » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:36 AM UTC

tristanj wrote: post #62

virgildotcodes wrote: post #52

Here's a probably stupid question - if someone were unbounded by ethics and conceivably had enough power and connections to power to shield themselves from many consequences of their actions - and that person owned these DCs, could they in theory observe all the streams of tokens coming in and out of these models, and even exfiltrate copies of these models wholesale to have their own teams do what they will with them…

1) The situation you described would be covered under the contract between Anthropic and xAI, and that any violation of that would be subject to financial penalties and legal proceedings. The US has a robust corporate legal system, and disputes do get resolved through the court system, although in a slow and costly manner. The contract can stipulate a penalty at a high enough amount to discourage this behavior. 2) Ou…

Post by krige » Thu, May 21, 2026, 5:37 AM UTC

usef- wrote: post #82

Torn wrote: post #57

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This is a really great watch from Benn Jordan on the topic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_bP80DEAbuo Some wild things happening with those, and infrasound. Colossus is shown 4 mins in

This was debunked: https://blog.andymasley.com/p/contra-benn-jordan-data-center...