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Gee, who could have seen that coming?

They will never let you gain two miles without taking 1 3/4 miles back.

Now what he’s talking about when he says he’s renting power to people he’s talking about AI chip processing power and xAi has the largest Ai network of rentable server time in the world I believe. I asked Chat about it a few weeks ago. I designed Fedex’s server down in Colorado Springs, and it’s a 7MW facility. It tracks all the packages in the world. The most important numbers and servers are PUE’s and WUE’s and it’s really about how much energy and water the facility consumes and at what operating temperature we run them at. It used to be that we had to run them in the 70-degree range and now we’re able to run them above 80 sometimes 85-degrees. Free-side cooling provides 90% of Fedex’s cooling needs with a closed-loop cooling system. It doesn’t consume very much water, consumes about 7000 gallons a day. Comparing this to households, it’s very efficient; it only consumes about a 10th of the water for how much electricity it draws.

The important correction is that these are not three neatly separated server farms with fully disclosed specifications. They form a rapidly expanding, interconnected Memphis–Southaven compute complex, and SpaceXAI does not publish a clean electrical and GPU breakdown for every building. If you click on this link we can see the graphics more clearly in the conversation.

The three-center picture

1. Facility Approximate power Computing equipment Principal users
Colossus 1 — Memphis More than 300 MW More than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs; original coherent cluster centered on about 200,000 H100-class GPUs Anthropic/Claude leases essentially all capacity

2. Colossus 2 / Macrohard — Memphis–Southaven Approximately 700–950 MW currently, depending on the estimate and definition Roughly 550,000 physical Blackwell-generation GPUs; Epoch estimates about 1.11 million H100-equivalents SpaceXAI/Grok, Reflection AI, some Anthropic capacity, Cursor; likely source of other commercial allocations

3. MACROHARDRR / Colossus 3 — Southaven expansion Individual present load not publicly separated; intended to push the regional complex toward approximately 2 GW Part of the expansion toward one million or more physical GPUs; newer GB300-class systems Primarily SpaceXAI expansion plus future commercial compute customers

SpaceXAI reportedly has a fourth, more compact building concept called Minihard, so the “three centers” description is already becoming outdated.

Colossus 1

This is the original former Electrolux factory in Memphis. xAI initially brought 100,000 H100 GPUs online, then doubled the interconnected system to approximately 200,000. The official Colossus page lists:

200,000 H100 GPUs
170 petabytes per second of aggregate memory bandwidth
More than half an exabyte of storage
2.8 terabits per second of networking per server

Anthropic says its allocation now encompasses more than 220,000 Nvidia GPUs and more than 300 MW. Anthropic confirmed that it was taking all Colossus 1 capacity.

Colossus 2

This is the newer Blackwell-heavy cluster. Its capacity is harder to pin down because equipment continues coming online.

The independent research organization Epoch AI currently estimates approximately:

946 MW of IT power
1.112 million H100-equivalents
2.20 × 10²¹ 8-bit operations per second, or about 2.2 zetta-operations per second
Expansion toward 1.53 GW and 1.824 million H100-equivalents in early 2027

Those are modeled estimates, not SpaceX-audited figures. Epoch AI’s current Colossus 2 estimate is here.

Colossus 3 / MACROHARDRR

This is the third major building in the regional expansion. The confusing part is that the widely quoted 2 GW figure is often described as though it belonged exclusively to this one building. It is safer to understand it as the intended scale of the expanded regional Colossus system.

Reuters reported that the third-building purchase was intended to bring xAI’s training infrastructure toward nearly 2 GW. A separate 1.2-GW onsite power plant is being developed to support the expanding complex. Reuters reported the third-building acquisition and 2-GW objective.

Who rents SpaceX computing?
Confirmed outside customers
Customer SpaceXAI capacity
Anthropic More than 300 MW and 220,000 GPUs at Colossus 1; reported payment approximately $1.25 billion per month, although the agreement has relatively short termination provisions
Google Approximately 110,000 Nvidia GPUs beginning in October 2026; reported payment $920 million per month through June 2029, subject to termination provisions
Reflection AI Immediate access to newer GB300 systems at Colossus 2; reported payment $150 million per month, potentially about $6.3 billion through 2029

Reuters reported Google’s 110,000-GPU SpaceX agreement. Reflection AI’s Colossus 2 agreement was reported by Axios.

Internal or no longer an ordinary tenant
SpaceXAI/xAI/Grok still uses the newer infrastructure to train and operate Grok.
Cursor/Anysphere originally gained access through a partnership, but SpaceX subsequently acquired Anysphere. Cursor is therefore becoming an internal SpaceXAI operation, rather than a normal outside renter.
Possible future customer
U.S. Department of Defense: SpaceX has discussed a multibillion-dollar AI-compute arrangement with the Pentagon, but the latest reliable reporting characterized that as negotiations, not a completed contract. Reuters reported the discussions.
What about Amazon?

Amazon is not presently identified as a SpaceXAI compute customer.

The confusion comes from Anthropic’s enormous infrastructure portfolio:

Anthropic rents Colossus capacity from SpaceX.
Anthropic separately has an agreement for up to 5 GW from Amazon/AWS.
Anthropic separately has another 5-GW agreement with Google and Broadcom.
Google itself also rents 110,000 Nvidia GPUs from SpaceX.

So Anthropic is simultaneously buying computing power from SpaceX, Amazon, Google, Microsoft, and other providers. Google is both an Anthropic infrastructure partner and a direct SpaceX compute customer. Amazon appears to be a supplier to Anthropic, not a renter from SpaceX.

The broader picture is that SpaceXAI has unexpectedly become a fifth large-scale cloud-compute operator alongside Amazon, Microsoft, Google, and Oracle. Reuters estimated that Colossus 1 and 2 together were supplying roughly one gigawatt of AI computing capacity by mid-2026, with SpaceX’s terrestrial compute footprint potentially reaching approximately 9 GW by 2029. Reuters’s overview of SpaceX’s emerging compute business is here.

What’s even crazier is that they have a new Chat GTP model that’s coming out and you have to see what it’s capable of the first column I’m posting is effectively a comparison of a computer to a human as far as computational power and world awareness (ARC-AGI-3). Look what Astra can do compared to Sol.

Bravo covers it here:

Well Musk say we do have an energy problem…..but it is now, he doesn’t talk about the future….he also says Space X is selling power to other entities.

WTH?

Birth pains. The tribulation is about to begin.

Ha! Thanks.

I’m pretty sure that when God weighs the scales he’ll find that I was wrong a lot more than I was right, and it won’t be close. 😉

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Where it sat on static display for years. My brother
Helped with the first restoration to get it running.
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Despite decreased industrial demand on silver right now it still has value to  investors and in the political and economic climate. That’s something other industrials don’t have.

Silver

first week in june to first week in september, up about 30%, from just under 10% to just under 13%…

do the chinese see something we don’t ???

Will there be some sort of toll for passage of ships through the Strait of Hormuz collected by Iran and Oman in the final peace deal?

I don’t have a clue (24%, 10 Votes)
probably (21%, 9 Votes)
Yes (19%, 8 Votes)
No (19%, 8 Votes)
Probably not (17%, 7 Votes)
Total Voters: 42

Poll Results … Although the opinions are all over the place, I’m pretty sure that all would agree that if the final agreement ends with a toll … that would be a kind of tragedy.

The Hormuz Letter
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BREAKING: Iran has been launching multiple waves of anti-ship cruise missiles and Shahed-136 drones from Sirik, southern Iran, in the past few hours, toward vessels under US Navy escort in the US-backed southern Omani corridor of the Strait of Hormuz, per initial reports.

Maybe we should just stop using these dangerous psychiatric drugs. How many mass murderers were using them? The majority? Do they actually help some people? I’m sure the mental health people would say yes.

In the past 24 hours Alaska alone has had 63 earthquakes between Magnitude 6.3 and 2.5 .  Normally the entire earth averages about 35 earthquakes daily. WTH?

https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/map/?extent=-61.18562,15.11719&extent=78.7335,369.49219&listOnlyShown=true&showPlateBoundaries=false&distanceUnit=mi

But it seems clear that there are some people (men and women) who are more susceptible to the drugs making them do these things. They are not in control of their actions any more. That is what the drugs are designed to produce, mind altering states. It can hardly be Clancy’s fault if some quacks give her drugs that tip her over the edge – literally, no-one in their right mind would kill their children and try to commit suicide, so the question should be, why was she not in her right mind?

Sure, mental hospital, but the trouble there is usually that the same psychs who prescribed the drugs can release her within six months because they deem her no longer a risk to society …….. the mental hospital needs to be for life too.

I don’t deny there’s a lot of danger in taking that kind of drugs however the vast majority of people would never kill their children no matter how much or how many drugs they’ve taken. JMO

Maybe she belongs in a mental hospital. She sure shouldn’t get away with it scot free!

No word as to why yet …

I watched the court video of the cross-examination of a 20-something psychologist who was in ‘communication’ with the defendant and prescribed her psychotic drugs (SSRIs) for he condition without ever meeting her. On top of the psychotic drugs (also SSRIs) which the defendant was already taking.

The increased risk of violence from the prescription of SSRIs is a known outcome:

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC7347007/

which is, of course, denied by the medical “profession”, whose livelihood depends on prescribing drugs at random on the basis of a few conversations, regardless of how many drugs the patient is already on:

https://www.psychiatrictimes.com/view/no-antidepressants-do-not-provoke-mass-shootings

From personal observations on the reporting of mass shootings, about half refer to the shooters being on anti-depressant medications,  sometimes specified as SSRIs. Even if the other half weren’t (articles never say that they weren’t medicated) 50% of shooters on meds is a vast over-representation of medicated people in the cohort.

So for me the question is, is it the psychologists who were responsible for tipping her over the edge with their prescriptions of mind-altering drugs, or was she in full control of her mental processes when she killed them?

I haven’t listened to the interview yet, but I’ll just mention that I don’t think we have a power shortage problem in the world, we have an energy storage problem instead. If all nuclear and coal power plants ran at a 90% duty cycle let’s say, All of this energy could be dumped into batteries or even massive cement blocks (gravity-assisted power generation) that move up and down in tall skyscraper like structures. So when we have this onslaught of solar energy and wind energy what they do is they ratchet these concrete blocks way up high into the structure and as the demand grows later at night when everybody’s arriving home these block blocks start lowering down which causes the generators to spin the other direction and put power back into the grid. So I really don’t think we need to create anymore power plants around the world, we just need to have a come-to-Jesus and decide how the hell to save this power so we can use it outside of the duck curve

Of course no apology necessary.
At least now we know for sure you are human and made a mistake. Lol

https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/trump-rages-against-treasonous-scum-media-iran-war-coverage

The Babylon Bee
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Jury Still Trying To Decide If Strangling Your Kids Is Okay

for the clarification. I didn’t see any that voted against in the article but also wasn’t aware it needed 2/3rds majority to pass.

Apologies.

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