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Nobody Will Say Why Every Major AI Chatbot Suddenly Went Down Yesterday
futurism.com/artificial-intelligence/nobody-saying-why-major-chatbot-outageReplying to @GolfFoxtrotLima@sh.itjust.works
Because they all use the illegal Colossus 2 data centre from SpaceX/XAi/fascism central and that data centre went down.
Google, Anthropic, and OpenAI all have contracts with them.
When that illegally running environmental disaster of data centre goes down, all those services all go over capacity and you get 502 rate limit errors.
Replying to @panda_abyss@lemmy.ca
And where is said data center? For research purposes
https://epoch.ai/data/ai-data-centers/directory/colossus-2 says “Memphis, Tennessee, United States” but also provides satellite imagery
Epoch AIColossus 2 | AI Data CentersColossus 2 is an operational AI data center with AI chips owned by SpaceXAI and used by Anthropic, Cursor, and SpaceXAI. It hosts an estimated 1,112k H100-equivalents of compute, supported by 946 MW o
Replying to @bad1080@piefed.social
The numbers of this madness are fucking scary, 1.5 GW of compute power, and huge arrays of cooler to keep it operating. It’s basically a 1.5GW heater in the open. Oh and gas turbines to provide (part of) the electricity. Capitalism is burning this world down for a buck.
Replying to @BeatTakeshi@lemmy.world
Today I learned that “AI” data centers use more energy than time travel.
Replying to @NotASharkInAManSuit@lemmy.world
I was about to say, slightly less according to Emmett Brown, then I checked and it’s only in the French version that it says 2.21GW. TIL.