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Cheezoholic

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4. "Compute" is just flat out bullshit and pisses me off about as much as "the Cloud"

Reply to highplainsdem (Original post)

Wed May 6, 2026, 07:36 PM

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"Compute" is energy, electricity, used. They are using this wording to fool the fools who don't understand what these places are doing to their environment and their infrastructure and their wallets.

And "the Cloud" is just the freaking internet monetized. That one REALLY burns me.

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Anthropic, SpaceX announce compute deal that includes space development [View all] highplainsdem Yesterday OP

Ah yes, the compute capacity in space grift lives on. Eugene Yesterday #1

I don't think Amodei's foolish enough to consider data centers in space a good idea, no matter what highplainsdem Yesterday #2

I just skimmed a couple hundred reactions to this deal on Hacker News. Reactions that were very much highplainsdem Yesterday #3

"Compute" is just flat out bullshit and pisses me off about as much as "the Cloud" Cheezoholic Yesterday #4

Ahhh...the cloud purr-rat beauty Yesterday #5