plus $473 per second from Anthropic
reply> As part of that deal, Anthropic agreed to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through 2029 to rent all the available compute from its Colossus 1 data center near Memphis, Tennessee, that xAI — now part of SpaceX — originally built for its own artificial intelligence efforts.
I don't get why SpaceX is going public. But anyway, well played, the whole crypto mining that dried out GPUs back in the day seems tiny now.
> I don't get why SpaceX is going public.
replyLiquidity for investors. They raised everything they could from private markets, government contract, debt, the remaining source of financing is from the public
Why would you want to own your own giant datacenter? What would you do with it? Of course it's expensive to operate a datacenter that serves millions of people.
replyI was actually surprised at how low the per-second rate is.
replyThey were just being jocular.
replyFor context, Alphabet earns ~$12k/sec.
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