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SpaceX has bought $329M worth of Tesla Megapacks so far this year (techcrunch.com)

2026-08-04 | by Tim De Chant | tags: spacex, tesla megapacks, xai

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SpaceXAI says it will remove all 69 of its unpermitted turbine power generators, but expects process to take a year — trailer-mounted generators to be replaced by 1.2GW power plant (tomshardware.com)

2026-08-02 | by Jowi Morales | tags: spacexai, colossus data centers, nvidia h200

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SpaceX Agrees to Remove Temporary Gas Turbines at Colossus Data Center By 2027 (gizmodo.com)

2026-08-01 | tags: spacex, elon musk, colossus data center

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The Computer That Helped Win World War II (spectrum.ieee.org)

2026-07-22 | by B. Jack Copeland | tags: colossus, enigma, bletchley park

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Original Apollo 11 Guidance Computer source code for command and lunar modules (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-07-22 | tags: apollo 11, guidance computer, agc

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Elon Musk's Memphis AI empire is the epicenter of the data center backlash (cnbc.com)

2026-07-16 | by Lora Kolodny Jeniece Pettitt | tags: spacex, memphis, colossus

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Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-14 | by Jowi Morales | tags: colossus, nitrogen oxide, reuters

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Elon Musk’s Colossus 2 data center installed 59 natural gas turbines without permission, report claims — thousands of tons of pollutants reportedly impact Black communities in Mississippi already suffering from elevated lung disease rates (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-14 | by Jowi Morales | tags: colossus, nitrogen oxide, reuters

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Elon Musk offers Starlink discount to AI data center neighbors following air and noise pollution lawsuits — 50% off plans and free hardware rental (tomshardware.com)

2026-07-01 | by Jowi Morales | get Starlink Satellite Internet Kit → | tags: starlink, spacex, colossus datacenters

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SpaceX offers half-price Starlink to Memphis residents while facing a lawsuit over data center's pollution (techspot.com)

2026-07-01 | get Starlink Satellite Internet Kit → | tags: starlink, spacex, xai

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AI-Powered War Is Coming. This Fight Over a Data Center Just Made That Case (cnet.com)

2026-06-25 | by See Full Bio | get AI Data Center Security Kit → | tags: xai, palantir, grok

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SpaceX inks compute deal with Reflection AI, an open-source AI lab (techcrunch.com)

2026-06-22 | by Kirsten Korosec | get Reflection AI Developer Kit → | tags: spacex, reflection ai, nvidia gb300

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SpaceX signs computing power deal with open-source AI startup Reflection worth up to $6.3 billion (cnbc.com)

2026-06-22 | by Deirdre Bosa | get Reflection AI Developer Kit → | tags: spacex, reflection ai, colossus supercomputer

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U.S. gov't asks court to dismiss NAACP lawsuit against Elon Musk's xAI over use of unpermitted gas turbines — DOJ says Grok model running at Colossus 2 ‘supports mission-critical operations’ (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-17 | by Jowi Morales | get Grok Model Colossus 2 → | tags: xai, elon musk, colossus 2

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Trump admin tries to block Clean Air Act lawsuit over xAI's gas turbines (arstechnica.com)

2026-06-16 | get Clean Air Act Compliance Kit → | tags: xai, grok, colossus gas plant

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Multiple small Tennessee counties pass temporary data center bans — Nashville also passed near-unanimous moratorium on first reading (tomshardware.com)

2026-06-15 | by Jowi Morales | get Data Center Cooling System → | tags: tennessee, data center, nashville

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SpaceX skeptics have added reason for concern after Musk comments diverge from IPO filing (cnbc.com)

2026-05-29 | by Lora Kolodny | get Starship Space Model Kit → | tags: spacex, elon musk, anthropic

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How long is Anthropic’s lease with SpaceX? Opinions vary (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-28 | by Russell Brandom | tags: anthropic, spacex, colossus

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How long is Anthropic’s lease with SpaceX? Opinions vary. (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-28 | by Russell Brandom | tags: anthropic, spacex, colossus

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Sonny Rollins, Jazz's Saxophone Colossus and Greatest Improvisor, Dead at 95 (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-27 | by Daniel Kreps | get Jazz Saxophone Practice Book → | tags: sonny rollins, saxophone colossus, jazz

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The Melancholy of Slaying Monsters (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-26 | by The Mit Press Reader | get Monster Hunter Rise Nintendo Switch → | tags: shadow of the colossus, bloodborne, team ico

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Anthropic is paying $15 billion a year for access to Elon Musk’s data centers (theverge.com)

2026-05-21 | by Andrew J. Hawkins | tags: anthropic, spacex, colossus

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SpaceX IPO Filing Reveals Anthropic Is Paying $15 Billion a Year to Access Its Data Centers (wired.com)

2026-05-20 | by Paresh Dave | get SpaceX Starlink Satellite Kit → | tags: spacex, anthropic, colossus

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Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25B per month for compute (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-20 | by Tim De Chant | get NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU → | tags: xai, anthropic, colossus 1

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Anthropic will pay xAI $1.25 billion per month for compute (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-20 | by Tim De Chant | get NVIDIA A100 Tensor Core GPU → | tags: xai, anthropic, colossus 1

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Anthropic hires OpenAI co-founder Andrej Karpathy, former Tesla AI leader (cnbc.com)

2026-05-19 | by Ashley Capoot Lora Kolodny | get AI Developer Kit → | tags: openai, tesla, anthropic

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Musk's Colossus 1 AI supercomputer's inefficient mixed-architecture design couldn't be used to train Grok, so Anthropic's using it for inference instead — Musk readies unified Blackwell-only Colossus 2 for frontier training and potential IPO (tomshardware.com)

2026-05-15 | by Etiido Uko | get NVIDIA H100 Tensor Core GPU → | tags: colossus, anthropic, spacex

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Colossus: The Forbin Project (news.ycombinator.com)

2026-05-14 | tags: colossus, forbin project, supercomputer

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We’re feeling cynical about xAI’s big deal with Anthropic (techcrunch.com)

2026-05-10 | by Anthony Ha | get Anthropic Claude AI Assistant → | tags: xai, anthropic, spacex

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Anthropic and Elon Musk Strike Unexpected Data Center Deal (cnet.com)

2026-05-07 | by See Full Bio | tags: anthropic, elon musk, spacex