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Is that why Anthropic recently gave out free credits for use in off-hours? Possibly an attempt to more evenly distribute their compute load throughout the day?

• DaedalusII 5mo ago
  i suspect they get cheap off peak electricity and compute is cheaper at those times
  • jedberg 5mo ago
    That's not really how datacenter power works. It's usually a bulk buy with a 95th percentile usage.
  • cheeze 5mo ago
    I think it's a lot simpler than that. At peak, gpus are all running hot. During low volume, they aren't.
• ac29 5mo ago
  That was the carrot, but it was followed immediately by the stick (5 hour session limits were halved during peak hours)
• troupo 5mo ago
  > Is that why Anthropic recently gave out free credits for use in off-hours? That 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?