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How can SpaceX have so much GPU spare capacity? It doesn't make any sense. Did Musk blindly order humongous amounts of GPUs years ago before any of us had any
by zxspectrum1982 3mo ago
How can SpaceX have so much GPU spare capacity? It doesn't make any sense.
Did Musk blindly order humongous amounts of GPUs years ago before any of us had any sense of the scale this was going to reach?
- stogot 3mo agoThey acquired xAI
- zxspectrum1982 3mo agoso why did xAI acquire so many GPUs but have no use for them today?
- pjscott 3mo agoMusk 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) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)
- diziet_sma 3mo agoThat wikipedia page mentions SpaceX reached a deal to lease all of Colossus 1 to Anthropic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colossus_(supercomputer)#cite_note-5 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?