Release7h ago
OpenAI Launches Grid Protectors Program: Future Compute Campuses Will Cut Power When Grids Are Strained, Starting With Up to 1,000 MW in Georgia
On November 2, OpenAI announced the Grid Protectors Program on its official blog: working with utilities and regulators so its future self-built compute campuses (its new term for data centers) cut electricity use when the grid is strained, while paying the full infrastructure and electric-service costs. The pilot is the planned campus in Effingham County, Georgia (Project Camellia), which Georgia Power says needs about 3,200 MW and commits up to 1,000 MW of flexible demand response, equal per OpenAI to the average use of roughly 700,000 households. The campus is still in development.
Tooling3d ago
X discussion: Anthropic's head of platform engineering says a team with no Rust developers had Claude port the whole Messages API to Rust, cutting CPU by roughly 40-50%
Katelyn Lesse, Anthropic's head of platform engineering, said on the Latent Space podcast (published Oct 27) that a Rust version of the Messages API fully rolled out the previous week. The old system was a CPU-hungry Python monolith, the team started with "not a single Rust developer", humans designed and verified the system, Claude wrote the implementation, and shadow traffic compared outputs between the old and new versions. Her ballpark figures are roughly 40-50% less CPU and 10-20% better time to first token. A clip posted by Somi (@somi_ai) drew 1,000+ likes and about 140K views on X and was quoted by swyx and others, with the debate centered on whether "never do the big rewrite" is now outdated advice. These are X discussion views and spoken estimates; Anthropic has not published a written engineering report.
Release63d ago
Anthropic seals $35B Lambda cloud deal for ~350MW Texas capacity
According to people familiar with the matter and multiple outlets, Anthropic agreed around August 31 to a roughly $35 billion cloud deal with Nvidia-backed Lambda for about 350 megawatts at a Hut 8–developed site in Nueces County, Texas; the Wall Street Journal reported Nvidia itself holds the lease. The pact follows Anthropic’s roughly $45 billion Nscale commitment in West Virginia and is meant to bring more Nvidia GPU capacity online for Claude and Claude Code demand.
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