That was the carrot, but it was followed immediately by the stick (5 hour session limits were halved during peak hours)
replyi suspect they get cheap off peak electricity and compute is cheaper at those times
replyThat's not really how datacenter power works. It's usually a bulk buy with a 95th percentile usage.
replyI think it's a lot simpler than that. At peak, gpus are all running hot. During low volume, they aren't.
reply> Is that why Anthropic recently gave out free credits for use in off-hours?
replyThat was the carrot for the stick. The limits and the issues were never officially recognized or communicated. Neither have been the "off-hours credits". You would only know about them if you logged in to your dashboard. When is the last time you logged in there?