Anthropic struck a deal with a Texas-based energy company for gas-fired engines meant to provide AI data centers with electricity.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.zip/post/74728400

Anthropic struck a deal with a Texas-based energy company for gas-fired engines meant to provide AI data centers with electricity.

  • danA
    425·
    7 hours ago

    something nobody wants

    OpenAI has 1.2 billion weekly active users so I’m not sure how accurate that is 🤔

    Anthropic have far fewer users, but they’re focused on a smaller number of big customers (large companies, etc) rather than individuals.

    • thermal_shock@lemmy.worldEnglish
      13·
      1 hour ago

      So just like Microsoft, adding copilot to everything including notepad and paint, does NOT mean people want it. Just because the website has a chat with a shitty bot section, doesn’t mean people want it. It’s all for artificial inflation of stocks.

    • ExLisper@lemmy.curiana.net
      231·
      7 hours ago

      They have only about 50M paying subscribers. Spotify has over 300M, same with Netflix. People use it because it’s convenient (search is mostly broken now) and free. I would like to see how many people and companies would use it if they actually had to pay for the environmental damage it’s causing. I think most people that do use it would happily go back to the time before AI. It’s useful but it’s definitely not the revolution we were promised.