Google to pay SpaceX $920M a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers

the road goes ever on and on.

what a crock

Google is getting in bed with some folks even more unsavory than themselves. The thing I noted most from I/O was how prominent and proud the are of partnering with Palantir. "Do no evil" has become "Let's do evil"

I thought it was notable that in Google's press release yesterday regarding their new facilities near Amarillo they seemed to go out of their way to point out that the applications are not AI, listing "Search, Gmail, Maps, Cloud, online banking, and 911 systems" instead. I wonder if they find it more convenient to rent an existing one rather than face public scrutiny for building another "AI data center".

In other news, the gold rush has entered a new phase as miners pivot to selling shovels.

That's... $12.50/hr per GPU. WTF?

How did Elon get so much NVIDIA hardware before everyone else?

Related / same story from different source (Bloomberg), submitted earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=48416941

This is such a disgusting economy

$$ taking another circular financing lap.

So now Google is supporting fascism...

Another way to read this is, "Twitter's AI dept. has been doing so badly they don't have a use for billions of dollars of hardware they bought."

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Is this another circular investment to help pump up the stock valuation? Why would Google need to rent that much compute?

> Google parent Alphabet has made a windfall from backing SpaceX, which was worth $12 billion at the time of its 2015 investment, and is looking to go public at a valuation of over $1.75 trillion

It's all about the money.