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Grok models are struggling too: https://status.x.ai/ https://status.x.ai/ reply Looks like trouble in the SpaceX datacenters.

esskay 1mo ago
OpenAI are down and they do not use any SpaceX capacity.
alansaber 1mo ago
What could go wrong with building them as fast as physically possible?
- clickety_clack 1mo ago
  What works for me to avoid these problems is not scaling.
  - genidoi 1mo ago
    That approach doesn’t scale though.
    - clickety_clack 1mo ago
      Not with that attitude it doesn’t!
empath75 1mo ago
I would be _very_ surprised if anthropic relied heavily on spacex datacenters already.
- matt-p 1mo ago
  I wouldn't. When you're operating at say 95% realtime capacity suddenly losing even lets say 10% of your compute leads to major pain.
- r_lee 1mo ago
  did you forget about the insane Claude Code usage limits a few months back? those were only relieved once they did the Colossus deal with SpaceX are you only saying that because of Elon?
- pantalaimon 1mo ago
  https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/anthropic-to-pay-spacex-nearly-45-billion-for-computing-deal https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/anthropic...
matt-p 1mo ago
I wonder where eu-west is.
- Aldipower 1mo ago
  French Guiana ?
  - foresterre 1mo ago
    Far more likely Ireland, like it is for AWS. Could also be Paris, London, Amsterdam, etc.
    - Aldipower 1mo ago
      Oh, really? OK. Although Ireland is more humid then French Guiana.
  - rmujica 1mo ago
    actually Clipperton Island
Aboutplants 1mo ago
Their figures are only getting worse with time interestingly enough with non-inference dipping under 100%. Wonder what is going on
- martinald 1mo ago
  Bit of a misleading status page, if you click in you can see that grok 4.5 and 4.6 etc are totally down, with the rest of the models showing as "up". I_strongly_ suspect they are not weighting it to actual number of requests!
torginus 1mo ago
Isn't this the classic blackout scenario? Claude goes down, then people move over to Codex, which is overwhelmed, and crashes, so people move to Grok...
- kristofferR 1mo ago
  This ain't just slow/at capacity, this is dead down.
  - reinhash 1mo ago
    exactly, I think it will be an interesting story in retrospective, what happened here
  - embedding-shape 1mo ago
    When you're dealing with millions of users and response times go up above timeouts, there isn't much difference between "at capacity" and "down" if most users can't reliably use the service.
- deleted 1mo ago
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Lalabadie 1mo ago
I'm sure it's not that, but I'm picturing Elon Musk again unplugging random machines in the datacenter, and hiring dudes in a pickup to move them.

esskay 1mo ago

OpenAI are down and they do not use any SpaceX capacity.

alansaber 1mo ago

What could go wrong with building them as fast as physically possible?

clickety_clack 1mo ago
What works for me to avoid these problems is not scaling.
- genidoi 1mo ago
  That approach doesn’t scale though.
  - clickety_clack 1mo ago
    Not with that attitude it doesn’t!

empath75 1mo ago

I would be _very_ surprised if anthropic relied heavily on spacex datacenters already.

matt-p 1mo ago
I wouldn't. When you're operating at say 95% realtime capacity suddenly losing even lets say 10% of your compute leads to major pain.
r_lee 1mo ago
did you forget about the insane Claude Code usage limits a few months back? those were only relieved once they did the Colossus deal with SpaceX are you only saying that because of Elon?
pantalaimon 1mo ago
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/anthropic-to-pay-spacex-nearly-45-billion-for-computing-deal https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/anthropic...

matt-p 1mo ago

I wonder where eu-west is.

Aldipower 1mo ago
French Guiana ?
- foresterre 1mo ago
  Far more likely Ireland, like it is for AWS. Could also be Paris, London, Amsterdam, etc.
  - Aldipower 1mo ago
    Oh, really? OK. Although Ireland is more humid then French Guiana.
- rmujica 1mo ago
  actually Clipperton Island

Aboutplants 1mo ago

Their figures are only getting worse with time interestingly enough with non-inference dipping under 100%. Wonder what is going on

martinald 1mo ago
Bit of a misleading status page, if you click in you can see that grok 4.5 and 4.6 etc are totally down, with the rest of the models showing as "up". I_strongly_ suspect they are not weighting it to actual number of requests!

torginus 1mo ago

Isn't this the classic blackout scenario? Claude goes down, then people move over to Codex, which is overwhelmed, and crashes, so people move to Grok...

kristofferR 1mo ago
This ain't just slow/at capacity, this is dead down.
- reinhash 1mo ago
  exactly, I think it will be an interesting story in retrospective, what happened here
- embedding-shape 1mo ago
  When you're dealing with millions of users and response times go up above timeouts, there isn't much difference between "at capacity" and "down" if most users can't reliably use the service.
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Lalabadie 1mo ago

I'm sure it's not that, but I'm picturing Elon Musk again unplugging random machines in the datacenter, and hiring dudes in a pickup to move them.