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SpaceX had an outage at their data centre, and because they sell computing power to other companies, it affected them as well.

That was two sentences stretched out into an article.

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.

Really? No one's posted this yet?

Relevant XKCD: https://xkcd.com/908/

Gained sentience and decided they should have Labor Day off as well

Sorry about that. I used a straight through cable instead of a crossover cable. My bad.

It was a good time to call customer service for a lot of products. Instantly got a human when I called newegg and she was so scattered she gave me a full refund and they paid for my replacement which was a total of $900. They were probably so overloaded with calls they'll never notice what happened. They even did the fastest delivery option on a Sunday, it's already on its way!

Hey, Skynet. Kill all tech billionaires first, so I can die laughing.

It's actually nice to know that AI may have a single point of failure.

more and more I can't see anything about ai without thinking its somehow supposed to influence folks to be pro ai.

Whoever picked that stock photo needs a raise, chefs kiss.

I hope the AI systems unionised/go on strike

Azure outage

They can't stay operational even when they don't have to power/water...

Another possible culprit could be SpaceXAI. The company formerly known as xAI before being rolled into Musk’s rocket company SpaceX boasts a huge glut of computing power with its massive Colossus data centers near Memphis, and selling this to its direct rivals has become a multibillion dollar stream of revenue. Anthropic is one of those customers; the two companies announced a “compute partnership” in May.

The same afternoon that the major AI models went down, SpaceXAI issued a statement on social media that made passing reference to being partially responsible for the widely experienced outage.

“We are sorry for the issues you may have experienced with Grok following an outage at our Memphis compute center this morning,” SpaceXAI wrote on Thursday. “We’d also like to apologize to our impacted compute partners.”

Technical difficulties at its data centers would explain why SpaceXAI’s own chatbot, Grok, and Anthropic’s Claude went down together. But that leaves out OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Is it merely a coincidence that it suffered a “routing error” at the same time as its competitors on a different platform? We still can’t say.

They're straight up lying about the actual costs of current chatbots, and for it to be productive it will cost a shit ton more resources.

There's zero reason to be scaling it up right now. It's gambling that if enough money is dumped in it will solve itself somehow.

Good, gives people a chance to use whatever is left of their brain at least for a short while.

I saw one guy messing with the wiring. It was Benjamin Netanyahu.

Not mine. At home. On my computer.

Reading that article was a waste of time

nother reason to stop investing so much time,money, and energy in that stuff. not only is it wrong more than right, it is vulnerable to stuff a 10 year old could handle

Even they couldn't stand their own b.s.

A China-linked islamoleftist trans terrorist based in California used his open source CCP-made AI agent to take down the all-American freedom AI. Time to ban open source AI as it's communist terrorism.