Claude is eating so much compute, the threat of that power being tuned down by lawsuit (rightfully) is worth the risk to Anthropic in the short-term. Instead of declaring "bubble", I'm just going to say that's so crazy.
https://naacp.org/articles/naacp-sues-xai-illegal-pollution-...
If your impression was that they went "we're done here", packed up and left, you're wrong. They're both operating and expanding their operations. And fighting environmental activists in court while at it.
Which I respect them for. "Environmental activists" are scum of the earth, as a rule, and "pay some activists to sue your competition" is a true time-honored classic of grey area legal warfare. SpaceX had to deal with that long before they merged with xAI - pretty much every time they built or expanded infrastructure.
Anyone can sue anyone for anything, and only the truly asinine lawsuits get thrown out pre-emptively, so "getting sued by environmental activists" is a more reliable indicator of "they're building something" and "they're stepping on some bigwig's toes" than it is of any "environmental damage". Tactics like this are a part of why US is a lousy place to build infrastructure in.
> Tactics like this are a part of why US is a lousy place to build infrastructure in.
I suspect your definition of a lousy place to build infrastructure in might overlap with my definition of a relatively good place to live.
Which is quite close to the standard NIMBY attitude: "I want good grid, cheap electricity and other infrastructure, but not in my backyard. Either someone else's, or somewhere where no one lives at all."
Can't you see the fundamental problem with that attitude? We mostly live in densely populated regions. We do need roads, rail and power plants to sustain our way of living, you too.
A technical civilization of 8 billion people cannot exist without doing at least some damage to the environment, but most of the time, outright bans on further development are demanded instead of some reasonable mitigation.
Maybe you really deeply care about the environment. Most of the NIMBYs I met don't. When it comes to infrastructure, housing etc., the environmental concerns are quite often just a legal tool, and the real motivation of the people who wield them is more along the "I have mine, I don't care about yours, just sod off".
At the time the consensus narrative was that SpaceX no longer needed Colossus 1 for Grok and that was why it could be leased to Anthropic while Colossus 2 would handle Grok training and inference. Does Anthropic also leasing Colossus 2 change this?