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But Anthropic isn't paying for the electricity and cooling. They don't run their own data centers, they rent compute from providers who cover those costs. That
by tristanj 2mo ago
But Anthropic isn't paying for the electricity and cooling. They don't run their own data centers, they rent compute from providers who cover those costs.
That's entirely why they can blow compute on the fun projects like this. If they had to pay extra for the electricity, they wouldn't do it.
- Barbing 2mo agoIs the electricity cost far greater than the marketing value?
- rightnutwingjob 2mo agoThe first is a physical quantity that can be written down. The second is approximately no better than astrology.
- ehe78qhe 2mo agoThe second point is, sadly, true of quite a lot of aspects of software, including "design" and "quality"
- nullsanity 2mo ago[dead]
- adastra22 2mo agoThe marginal electricity cost is zero.
- londons_explore 2mo agoBut training LLM's is also a task one can do whenever you have a spare GPU-minutes. I wonder why they don't have some kind of scheduler which makes sure there are never any idle minutes. One would imagine they at least would have autoscaling on their production serving workload and use the freed compute capacity for model training for example.
- esseph 2mo agoI doubt they're inferencing on their training hardware