Meta in Talks to Lease Computing Power to Anthropic in Potential $10 Billion Deal
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/07/17/technology/meta-anthropic-ai-computing-power.html?unlocked_article_code=1.yVA.K1Gm.2CW6uZ64_C9x
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Ebby@lemmy.ssba.com · 25 pts · 41d
The company building data centers in tents just rented them out for $10 billion?
I got to start taking laptops camping. Maybe I'll make my money back.
magnue@lemmy.world · 20 pts · 41d
The circle jerk continues.
Triumph@fedia.io · 7 pts · 41d
Jerk Circleburg
Malyca@lemmy.zip · 18 pts · 41d
"If we pass the same $5 around enough times people won't notice"
qevlarr@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 41d
GDP go up
wewbull@feddit.uk · 16 pts · 41d
Zitron's sign of the AI-pocalypse.
anomnom@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 40d
Sign number what though?
I agree with most of his points but can’t listen to him for more than 5 minutes at a time.
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 10 pts · 41d
The AI hype/scarcity frenzy (bubble) was based on Meta and xAI hoarding GPUs for themselves instead of reselling compute, making it abundant instead of scarce. All of the other datacenters were hoping to have them as customers instead of competitors.
2 lies in article:
byline "proves compute is scarce" is opposite. This is not a real datacenter rental deal. It is a "can quit anytime" show deal. Token consumption is down 20% since march peak.
"Compute costs are rising exponentially". Blatant lie, in terms of compute pricing $/gpu hour. Rates are near their accounting floor (though not at rock bottom) for H series, and the faster newer cards are just 2x the $/hour instead of the 8x saturated performance difference.
drmoose@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 41d
Tokens are down partly because it's summer tbh
humanspiral@lemmy.ca · 1 pts · 40d
SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz · 8 pts · 41d
Corporate LAN party
Sims@lemmy.ml · 8 pts · 41d
..and around and around the fake money goes, all while they steal all wealth from the Mericans that believed the fake gospels of the Capitalist religion..