Talk:Colossus (data center)

Tempting fate

Did no one read the book or watch the movie? Colossus

That fictional computer killed its creators and enslaved mankind. Now we name the biggest one yet built after it? 24.206.84.188 (talk) 11:45, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

We did not. Dorsetonian (talk) 13:04, 10 June 2025 (UTC)

Another Colossus

In theory, it could also be a reference to the literally anti-fascist Colossus computer — Preceding unsigned comment added by TorLillqvist (talk • contribs) 14:49, 11 August 2025 (UTC)

bias

i feel that this article has some slight bias, but maybe it's just me. it feels a bit accusatory I think. Jan 26 2026 update:I think it is a lot better now, with no bias.BP131527 (talk) 02:28, 3 September 2025 (UTC)

there's a lot of clear bias for sure ~2026-51071-4 (talk) 03:10, 24 January 2026 (UTC)

So many issues with this article

Firstly, it's not a supercomputer, it's a data centre.

Secondly, what Musk claims about Colossus 1 and what is reality seem to be different things.

Colossus 1 - 300MW data centre (currently leased to Anthropic for $15b a year)

Source: https://www.theverge.com/science/935229/spacex-anthropic-ipo-ai-capacity-deal-colossus

Colossus 2 - 1GW data centre but currently only supporting 350MW

"It purchased the site for Colossus 2 last March, and the data center came online in January. Despite Musk claiming it offered 1GW of capacity at launch, satellite imagery taken in January reportedly showed it had cooling equipment installed capable of managing 350MW."

Source: https://www.datacenterdynamics.com/en/news/xai-deploys-19-natural-gas-turbines-at-colossus-2-data-center-in-southaven-mississippi-report/

It would be fantastic is someone could start making this less like an advertisement for xAI. ~2026-14444-94 (talk) 19:40, 22 May 2026 (UTC)

Hit the edit button. Einsof (talk) 23:11, 23 May 2026 (UTC)

Problems - article name and focus

The article is called "Colosssus" but there are two Colosssus' , Colosssus 1 and Colosssus 2 and the article is completely focused on Colosssus 1. So either the article should be called Colossus 1 or it should cover both. I think the latter is better, I think there is no point in having two articles about very similar datacenters (what happens when there is 3rd?), just separate it into 2 big subsections.~2026-36421-83 (talk) 05:17, 24 June 2026 (UTC)

Law breaking

To some extent something is covered in the enviromental impact section, but I feel we need (here and in the other AI connected articles) "Law breaking" or at least more focus on that. AI companies are immensly rich and consequently poweful and obviously they get away with that. So I think it's important to note that. To illustrate, enviromental impact section mentiones 30+ power plants but it doesn't mention that they had a permit for 15, and later again when caught, played a fool and left 20+. Also it's not clear from what was said in the article that the (idiotic If I might add) loophole of "364 days stationary relating to portable equipment" was not an accident but a deliberate play by xAI - they applied for 15 and took advantage of the loophole. did apply for a permit for 15 generators – even though it had been running up to 35 generators on-site, violating the Clean Air Act. What I think is there needs to be explicit semantics that describes what they're doing. Reading the article it feels like it's all a misunderstanding. Considering not all people can function that way (cover legallity also if you cover different topic) the best solution imo would be to add law breaking which would force users to add that information.~2026-38330-93 (talk) 14:30, 6 July 2026 (UTC) edit: also "permit by rule" pre-construction authorization play that avoids public notice requirement and public input so they can build things out of nowhere and when they have a foothold they ask for higher level permits and then it's very difficult even impossible to stop them if the construction has already begun. and politicians signing non-disclosure with private (AI) companies (it seems it's not illegal but it's obvious it should be). ~2026-38330-93 (talk) 14:57, 6 July 2026 (UTC)