But Anthropic isn't paying for the electricity and cooling. They don't run their own data centers, they rent compute from providers who cover those costs.

That's entirely why they can blow compute on the fun projects like this. If they had to pay extra for the electricity, they wouldn't do it.

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Barbing 2 hours ago | parent [-]

Is the electricity cost far greater than the marketing value?

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rightnutwingjob an hour ago | parent [-]

The first is a physical quantity that can be written down.

The second is approximately no better than astrology.

	▲	ehe78qhe an hour ago \| parent [-]
		The second point is, sadly, true of quite a lot of aspects of software, including "design" and "quality"