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pjscott 42 days ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute cap...

Musk made big investments in building AI data centers starting in 2024, continuing through the present. SpaceX got those assets from xAI, spun off from X, via an acquisition. More details:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)

diziet_sma 42 days ago [–]

That wikipedia page mentions SpaceX reached a deal to lease all of Colossus 1 to Anthropic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)#cite_...

So will SpaceX lease Colossus 2 to Google? If both Colossus datacenters are rented, will xAI have any compute?

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