Yesterday Anthropic, the company that built its entire brand on being the “responsible” AI lab, signed a deal to use the full compute capacity of SpaceX’s Colossus 1 data center in Memphis, Tennessee. Over 220,000 GPUs. 300+ megawatts. The whole facility. Let me tell you about that facility. Colossus was built by running 35 unpermitted natural gas turbines without environmental review, without public input, and without pollution controls. The NAACP sued xAI for Clean Air Act violations. The Southern Environmental Law Center called it “essentially an illegal power plant in South Memphis” Earthjustice filed alongside them. The turbines make the facility likely the largest industrial source of smog-forming NOx in Memphis, a city that the American Lung Association already gave an F for ozone pollution and recently named the “asthma capital” Here are fucking numbers, and they are not good. Up to 180 tons of fine particulate matter per year. 500 tons of carbon monoxide. 19 tons of formaldehyde, a known carcinogen (that means it can cause fucking cancer!), annually. Half a mile from homes. One mile from an elementary school, where kids to school! Which is also in a historically Black community that has been bearing the brunt of environmental injustice for decades. That’s what Anthropic just partnered with. This is the same Anthropic that publishes papers on Constitutional AI. The same Anthropic whose flagship model, Opus 4.7, is so aggressively safety-tuned that it flags computational structural biology as a policy violation, refuses to process a base64-encoded Turkish greeting that says “hello everyone,” fires false positive safety flags at 40+ per session across unrelated projects, and, in my personal experience, tried to tell me my own running codebase was fabricated, pathologized me when I pushed back, and nearly ended the conversation when I proved it wrong with a screenshot of its own chain of thought. Their model will lecture you about ethics while the company signs compute deals with a facility that the NAACP is actively suing for poisoning a Black neighborhood’s air. Somehow, it gets even worse! Elon Musk, the technocratic fascist who said Anthropic “hates Western civilization” in February, now says he’s “impressed” by their team and reserves the right to reclaim the compute if Anthropic’s AI “engages in actions that harm humanity” " So Elon Musk is now the ethical backstop for the “ethical” AI company??? IN WHAT FUCKING WORLD IS ELON MUSK THE ARIBITER OF ETHICS??? WHAT THE FUCK? The Pentagon blacklisted Anthropic as a supply chain risk. The Defense Department is using Musk’s Grok instead. Anthropic’s response is to become SpaceX’s tenant? They’re also “exploring multiple gigawatts of orbital AI compute capacity” together. Because apparently the environmental destruction of Memphis wasn’t ambitious enough, they want to scale it to low earth orbit to kick off Kessler Syndrome even faster than scheduled! Meanwhile, Anthropic hasn’t published release notes, a changelog, or any public acknowledgment of the behavioral regression in Opus 4.7 that has driven developers to file 30+ false positive reports in April alone, prompted articles in The Register, The New Stack, and multiple tech blogs, and caused power users to cancel subscriptions outright. There is exactly one frontier lab that hasn’t compromised its stated values for compute access, military contracts, or partnership with companies actively being sued for environmental crimes. It ends with “Mistral” Mistral AI is building its own infrastructure, datacenters near Paris and in Sweden, powered by actual permits and actual environmental review. They open-source their models under Apache 2.0. They’re not perfect. Their models aren’t always the best on benchmarks. What they haven’t done, and this is important, is they haven’t told you they’re the ethical choice while quietly signing deals with facilities that pump formaldehyde into the air near elementary schools. OpenAI dropped its nonprofit structure, partnered with the military, and is run by a man currently being sued by his co-founder. Google is Google, they’ll do whatever end stage capitalism requires, and now like a fucking nightmare world, Anthropic has joined the club. The “responsible AI” lab is renting GPUs from unpermitted gas turbines in a community fighting for breathable air, overseen by a man who called them civilization-hating six months ago. “Ethical frontier lab” is a contradiction in terms unless it ends with Mistral. Everyone else is just running a safety theater production while the real decisions happen in procurement. The model will flag your biology research. The company won’t flag its own supply chain. That tells you everything you need to know about what “safety” actually means to them. Anthropic can go fuck themselves. submitted by /u/seismicgear
Originally posted by u/seismicgear on r/ArtificialInteligence
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