While SpaceX plans satellite-based AI servers, Bloomberg reports it ran into trouble trying to develop and run Grok AI in Memphis, citing unnamed sources. They claim that deals renting capacity to Anthropic ($15 billion annually) and Google ($920 million per month) happened following hardware variation and lag issues: > Elon Musk’s company had planned to train its most cutting-edge AI models on a massive amount of computing power by using a cluster of three data center campuses. However, the firm encountered latency issues when connecting Colossus 1 with two other sites located more than 10 miles away, the people said, compounded by aging network infrastructure.

Bloomberg: SpaceX hit latency issues and chip mismatches connecting Colossus 1 to its other data centres. It rented the facility to Anthropic for $1.25B/month.

xAI leases its 220,000-GPU Colossus 1 supercomputer to Anthropic for $1.25B per month after the facility proved unsuitable for training Grok AI models.

While SpaceX plans satellite-based AI servers, Bloomberg reports it ran into trouble trying to develop and run Grok AI in Memphis, citing unnamed sources. They claim that deals…