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dtj1123today at 12:39 PM3 repliesview on HN

380 dollars per second... Good to know I could afford my own data center for an appreciable fraction of a minute.


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comboytoday at 12:56 PM

plus $473 per second from Anthropic

> 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.

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jonas21today at 5:00 PM

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.

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ignoramoustoday at 1:32 PM

For context, Alphabet earns ~$12k/sec.