Grok models are struggling too: https://status.x.ai/ reply

Looks like trouble in the SpaceX datacenters.

torginus 16 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Isn't this the classic blackout scenario? Claude goes down, then people move over to Codex, which is overwhelmed, and crashes, so people move to Grok...

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kristofferR 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

This ain't just slow/at capacity, this is dead down.

	▲	embedding-shape 16 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		When you're dealing with millions of users and response times go up above timeouts, there isn't much difference between "at capacity" and "down" if most users can't reliably use the service.
	▲	reinhash 16 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		exactly, I think it will be an interesting story in retrospective, what happened here

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alansaber 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

What could go wrong with building them as fast as physically possible?

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clickety_clack 17 hours ago | parent [-]

What works for me to avoid these problems is not scaling.

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genidoi 16 hours ago | parent [-]

That approach doesn’t scale though.

	▲	clickety_clack 14 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Not with that attitude it doesn’t!

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Aboutplants 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Their figures are only getting worse with time interestingly enough with non-inference dipping under 100%. Wonder what is going on

	▲	martinald 17 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Bit of a misleading status page, if you click in you can see that grok 4.5 and 4.6 etc are totally down, with the rest of the models showing as "up". I_strongly_ suspect they are not weighting it to actual number of requests!

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esskay 16 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

OpenAI are down and they do not use any SpaceX capacity.

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empath75 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I would be _very_ surprised if anthropic relied heavily on spacex datacenters already.

	▲	matt-p 17 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		I wouldn't. When you're operating at say 95% realtime capacity suddenly losing even lets say 10% of your compute leads to major pain.
	▲	pantalaimon 16 hours ago \| parent \| prev \| next [-]
		https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/anthropic...
	▲	r_lee 16 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		did you forget about the insane Claude Code usage limits a few months back? those were only relieved once they did the Colossus deal with SpaceX are you only saying that because of Elon?

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matt-p 17 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I wonder where eu-west is.

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Aldipower 17 hours ago | parent [-]

French Guiana ?

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foresterre 17 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Far more likely Ireland, like it is for AWS. Could also be Paris, London, Amsterdam, etc.

	▲	Aldipower 16 hours ago \| parent [-]
		Oh, really? OK. Although Ireland is more humid then French Guiana.

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rmujica 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

actually Clipperton Island

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Lalabadie 16 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

I'm sure it's not that, but I'm picturing Elon Musk again unplugging random machines in the datacenter, and hiring dudes in a pickup to move them.