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highplainsdem

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2. I don't think Amodei's foolish enough to consider data centers in space a good idea, no matter what

Reply to Eugene (Reply #1)

Wed May 6, 2026, 06:22 PM

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he might have nodded along with while Musk babbled about it.

But he was desperately in need of compute capacity now. Ed Zitron suggested this deal probably means no other data centers large enough were near completion.

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Anthropic, SpaceX announce compute deal that includes space development [View all] highplainsdem Yesterday OP

Ah yes, the compute capacity in space grift lives on. Eugene Yesterday #1

I don't think Amodei's foolish enough to consider data centers in space a good idea, no matter what highplainsdem Yesterday #2

I just skimmed a couple hundred reactions to this deal on Hacker News. Reactions that were very much highplainsdem Yesterday #3

"Compute" is just flat out bullshit and pisses me off about as much as "the Cloud" Cheezoholic Yesterday #4

Ahhh...the cloud purr-rat beauty Yesterday #5