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Grok models are struggling too: https://status.x.ai/ reply

Looks like trouble in the SpaceX datacenters.

Isn't this the classic blackout scenario? Claude goes down, then people move over to Codex, which is overwhelmed, and crashes, so people move to Grok...

This ain't just slow/at capacity, this is dead down.

exactly, I think it will be an interesting story in retrospective, what happened here

When you're dealing with millions of users and response times go up above timeouts, there isn't much difference between "at capacity" and "down" if most users can't reliably use the service.

What could go wrong with building them as fast as physically possible?

What works for me to avoid these problems is not scaling.

That approach doesn’t scale though.

Not with that attitude it doesn’t!

I would be _very_ surprised if anthropic relied heavily on spacex datacenters already.

I wouldn't. When you're operating at say 95% realtime capacity suddenly losing even lets say 10% of your compute leads to major pain.

did you forget about the insane Claude Code usage limits a few months back?

those were only relieved once they did the Colossus deal with SpaceX

are you only saying that because of Elon?

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-05-20/anthropic...

Their figures are only getting worse with time interestingly enough with non-inference dipping under 100%. Wonder what is going on

Bit of a misleading status page, if you click in you can see that grok 4.5 and 4.6 etc are totally down, with the rest of the models showing as "up". I_strongly_ suspect they are not weighting it to actual number of requests!

OpenAI are down and they do not use any SpaceX capacity.

I wonder where eu-west is.

French Guiana ?

Far more likely Ireland, like it is for AWS. Could also be Paris, London, Amsterdam, etc.

Oh, really? OK. Although Ireland is more humid then French Guiana.

actually Clipperton Island

I'm sure it's not that, but I'm picturing Elon Musk again unplugging random machines in the datacenter, and hiring dudes in a pickup to move them.

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