Find XO: Grok and Claude Stopped at the Same Time, Borrowing Compute from the Same Company (theregister.com)

- Around 6:30 a.m. Pacific Time on September 3, Grok and Claude stopped almost simultaneously. - SpaceX identified an outage at the Memphis compute center as the cause and apologized to its compute partners; Anthropic had contracted this year to borrow compute from Musk's AI company. - They believed splitting vendors ensured redundancy, but the GPUs were actually located in the same building. - It's time to look into lease chains that aren't written in contracts.