380 dollars per second... Good to know I could afford my own data center for an appreciable fraction of a minute.

plus $473 per second from Anthropic

> As part of that deal, Anthropic agreed to pay SpaceX $1.25 billion per month through 2029 to rent all the available compute from its Colossus 1 data center near Memphis, Tennessee, that xAI — now part of SpaceX — originally built for its own artificial intelligence efforts.

I don't get why SpaceX is going public. But anyway, well played, the whole crypto mining that dried out GPUs back in the day seems tiny now.

	▲	dgellow 4 hours ago \| parent [-]
		> I don't get why SpaceX is going public. Liquidity for investors. They raised everything they could from private markets, government contract, debt, the remaining source of financing is from the public

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jonas21 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Why would you want to own your own giant datacenter? What would you do with it? Of course it's expensive to operate a datacenter that serves millions of people.

	▲	jamwil an hour ago \| parent [-]
		They were just being jocular.

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ignoramous 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For context, Alphabet earns ~$12k/sec.