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  • Anthropic + xAI Colossus 🤝, Google Expert Advice 💬, design from the inside 🧑‍🎨

    From TLDR@VERT to All on Thursday, May 07, 2026 10:26:27
    SpaceX has agreed to provide Anthropic access to its Colossus 1 data
    center in Memphis, Tennessee. The plant has more than 300 megawatts of power ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌  ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ ‌ 


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  • From poindexter FORTRAN@VERT/REALITY to TLDR on Thursday, May 07, 2026 07:52:17
    TLDR wrote to All <=-

    SpaceX has agreed to provide Anthropic access to its Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The plant has more than 300 megawatts of power

    Are they fucking kidding? Naming an AI data center after a science
    fiction computer that ENSLAVED MANKIND?

    (Colossus: The Forbin Project -- great movie, BTW)



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  • From Mortar@VERT/EOTLBBS to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, May 07, 2026 13:20:17
    Re: Anthropic + xAI Colossus ", Google Expert Advice ", design from the ins
    By: poindexter FORTRAN to TLDR on Thu May 07 2026 07:52:17

    Are they kidding? Naming an AI data center after a science
    fiction computer that ENSLAVED MANKIND?

    Yeah, not the greatest marketing. OoC, I Googled "Skynet" and found a couple of real-world uses: One was for a (apparently now defunct) observatory telescope network, the other is for a e-commerce shipping company.

    (Colossus: The Forbin Project -- great movie, BTW)

    Oh yeah. Too bad they didn't make movies out the other two books.

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  • From Nightfox@VERT/DIGDIST to Mortar on Thursday, May 07, 2026 13:23:23
    Re: Anthropic + xAI Colossus ", Google Expert Advice ", design from the in
    By: Mortar to poindexter FORTRAN on Thu May 07 2026 01:20 pm

    Yeah, not the greatest marketing. OoC, I Googled "Skynet" and found a couple of real-world uses: One was for a (apparently now defunct) observatory telescope network, the other is for a e-commerce shipping company.

    I have a coffee cup with "Cyberdyne Systems" & their logo (from the Terminator movies) on it. The last company I worked at made semiconductor tools, and I brought the coffee cup to the office to have on my desk, but nobody ever said anything about it.

    Nightfox

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  • From Mike Powell@VERT/CAPTEST to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, May 07, 2026 23:10:00
    SpaceX has agreed to provide Anthropic access to its Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee. The plant has more than 300 megawatts of power

    Are they f***ing kidding? Naming an AI data center after a science
    fiction computer that ENSLAVED MANKIND?

    (Colossus: The Forbin Project -- great movie, BTW)

    LOL, the first BBS software I ever tried was called Colossus. The interface reminded me of the Opus boards of that time. I never could get it to answer the modem so I eventually chose GT Power.

    Also, IIRC, there was a software developer back then called the Forbin Project. I wonder now if maybe that was the name of the development group that created the Colossus BBS software, or if I am remembering it from some other package? :D


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  • From Ogg@VERT/CAPCITY2 to poindexter FORTRAN on Thursday, May 07, 2026 17:59:00
    Hello pF!

    SpaceX has agreed to provide Anthropic access to its Colossus 1 data
    center in Memphis, Tennessee. The plant has more than 300 megawatts of
    power

    Are they fucking kidding? Naming an AI data center after a science
    fiction computer that ENSLAVED MANKIND?

    (Colossus: The Forbin Project -- great movie, BTW)

    Thanks for the mention. Will have to check it out.

    123moviesfree.net seems to have it.

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  • From Ogg@VERT/ALTERANT to pF on Thursday, May 07, 2026 18:48:51
    (Colossus: The Forbin Project -- great movie, BTW)

    Thanks for the mention. Will have to check it out.

    123moviesfree.net seems to have it.

    Watched it. Interesting "reasoning" and dialog with the computer. The ending seemed a bit abrupt and lacked punch/shock. But.. overall, quite good. Might have dig up the original book.

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