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gjsman-1000 3 hours ago

$45 billion for a 3 year rental.

TheAlchemist 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

What would be interesting to know how much did it cost xAI to build it ? Ai says between $18-$40 billion to just build, without running cost, but no idea how close to reality this is.

jsnell 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The AI row of the capex table in the S-1 should be a pretty close approximation.

pianoben 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Nobody pays MSRP at that scale

eightysixfour 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Given global demand and that they were late to the order party, they probably paid more lol

btian 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Closer to 18b than 40. Running costs are 1-2b a year.

tristanj 2 hours ago | parent [-]

More like $25 billion since 2025, with $7 billion of spending in the past 3 months. Look at page 22 of the filing.

pbmango 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Anthropic is getting capacity from Colossus 1 not Colossus 2 it sounded like. The initial colossus capex was under $5B, making that an even more astounding payoff.

Edit: S1 states both are being leased so the 20-25B initial investment probably more relevant

TheAlchemist 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

The S-1 states that it gets capacity from both Colossus 1 and Colossus 2.

gjsman-1000 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

... and a sign Anthropic couldn't find enough compute anywhere else, so they had to bite the bullet. Interesting.

thetrb 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

how much did SpaceX / xAI pay for these GPUs? After 3 years they'll probably be mostly deprecated.

electriclove 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Are GPUs from 3 years ago being deprecated today?

moogly 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

And how many of them were diverted from Tesla?

electriclove 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Pretty sure that Tesla didn't use Colossus. Tesla used Cortex 1 and Cortex 2 which are at the Gigafactory in Austin.