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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 port11 »

fancyfredbot wrote: post #143
boldlybold wrote: post #129

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Illegal is a strong term here. While the wiki link you included indicates there might be some permitting nuances, I've seen nothing claiming the power is "illegal."

The ethics are questionable, legal or not. Anthropic are tarnishing their image again here. Not sure how much it hurts then compared to blocking openclaw though.

I find the ethics of power generation, resource use, and pollution in a world struggling with climate change to be more of a challenge than whether a few people can run some software. And that’s coming from a Claude user that’s getting tired of their shenanigans.

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

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Post by Jackson__ »

Oh what is that, the most "ethical" AI company on the planet making deals with literal democracy undermining fascists?

I'm starting to think the problem with "ethical" AI was always that no company could ever act ethically in the long term. They are and always will be a cancer to society and AI will only serve to amplify this further.

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

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Post by londons_explore »

throwaway85825 wrote: post #361
Gagarin1917 wrote: post #273

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Which is apparently manageable. Scott Manley isn’t an industry veteran, but he does know a lot about space engineering and science. Here’s his breakdown of the feasibility, and heat management is not really a major issue: https://youtu.be/DCto6UkBJoI

Heat management is not a technical issue but a reliability issue.

These satellites will be in orbits where they are always illuminated. That means constant temperatures, which means no thermal cycling and no reliability concerns.

When people say 'running it hot is bad for reliability', they mean 'running it hot and then brining it back to room temp from time to time will eventually kill it'.

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

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Post by aayushdutt »

gpugreg wrote: 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.

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

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Post by port11 »

alwillis wrote: post #322
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…

People are waisting tokens by using Opus for everything. Using Advisor [1], you can use Sonnet most of time; Sonnet can handoff work it can't handle to Opus. When Opus is done, you automatically go back to Sonnet. [1]: https://www.mindstudio.ai/blog/claude-code-advisor-strategy-...

I rarely use Opus for planning (in the Pro plan). Spec a feature in Sonnet, hand it to Haiku, come back for review. That’s a 5-hour window gone, sometimes 2.

I hit my weekly limit around day 4, with 2 maxed out windows per day (and sometimes a bit of usage at night).

I completely understand why people would use Opus for everything, it’s much more thorough and effective. Sonnet as well, but on Pro it’s gonna be Haiku all the time.

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

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Post by lostmsu »

SirSavary wrote: post #324
lostmsu wrote: post #288

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

Emphasis my own: > "The xAI facility has already deployed *nearly 20 gas turbines, including four large units with a combined capacity of 100MW*, to power its AI system Grok... There are plans to add *15 more gas turbines between June 2025 and June 2030*, and the turbine application projects *annual emissions of around 11.51 tons of hazardous air pollutants*." > "it is currently *running gas turbines without the nece…

So they haven't gotten permits, but why? Why where the permits denied?

Just the other day we had news that some Californian environment protection agency denied permits for SpaceX for political reasons as opposed to following objective rules, as ruled by a judge. So the fact that some permits were not issued doesn't tell me anything.

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

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Post by vidarh »

scottyah wrote: post #318
vidarh wrote: post #133

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I hit my weekly limit in 3 days this week. Irregularly do in 5. With the top MAX sub.

Wow, then you are most likely doing something very wrong.

No, I'm just using it a lot. It's productive enough that I've found it worthwhile tacking on subs for GLM 5.1 and Kimi as well (GLM is fantastic, Kimi is good when it works but temperamental)

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

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Post by redox99 »

prepend wrote: post #330
redox99 wrote: post #200

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The area you need in radiators is only half the area you need in solar panels. So it's definitely not a deal breaker. Its still very dumb because of economics, logistics, serviceability and more.

Solar on earth was dumb because of logistics, right? Things get cheaper.

Long term maybe, but I don't think it makes sense now, and won't for many years.

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Post by skinfaxi »

osiris970 wrote: post #247
causal wrote: post #214

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> In general, data centers only pay corporate income tax if they generate revenue. Not all data centers do this because many don’t sell goods or services; they simply house servers. By qualifying as business expenses rather than revenue generators, they reduce the tax liability of their parent companies. > Thus, when it comes to income tax, at least, many data centers – especially hyperscale data centers owned by lar…

They pay property taxes. The best tax there is as of now (LVT when)

I would be surprised if these developments didn't have tax abatement clauses.
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