2024: compute
Selekoa’s 19 compute records dated 2024, in date order, of 407 in all topics. 1 stated date is listed apart.
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Compute 19 records
March 2024
· announcement · dated to the day · announced
Talen announced on 4 March 2024 the sale of its Cumulus data-centre campus in north-eastern Pennsylvania, connected to its Susquehanna nuclear plant; its release does not name the buyer, which Talen’s results of 14 March 2024 name as AWS, as the cross-family check read both. World Nuclear News later reported the 960 MW campus sold to AWS with a long-term power supply agreement. Evidence ↗
June 2024
· announcement · dated to the day
Thales Alenia Space stated that ASCEND aims to deploy one gigawatt before 2050. Evidence ↗
September 2024
· announcement · dated to the day · contract
Constellation announced on 20 September 2024 that it had signed a 20-year power purchase agreement with Microsoft that would pave the way for restarting Three Mile Island Unit 1 as the Crane Clean Energy Center, with Microsoft purchasing energy from the plant as part of its goal to match the power its PJM data centers use with carbon-free energy. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · contract
The CMA describes Anthropic’s agreement for AWS compute capacity as non-exclusive. Evidence ↗
October 2024
· announcement · dated to the day · announced
Google announced on 14 October 2024 an agreement to purchase nuclear energy from multiple small modular reactors to be developed by Kairos Power, intended to bring the first reactor online by 2030 with further deployments through 2035, enabling up to 500 MW of power to US grids. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · announced
Amazon announced on 16 October 2024 an agreement with Dominion Energy to explore developing a small modular reactor project near Dominion's North Anna nuclear station, which Amazon said would bring at least 300 MW of power to the Virginia region. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · announced
Amazon announced on 16 October 2024 an agreement with Energy Northwest to enable development of four advanced small modular reactors in Washington, expected to generate roughly 320 MW in a first phase with an option to increase to 960 MW. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · contract
Amazon stated on 16 October 2024 that it had previously signed an agreement to co-locate a data center facility next to Talen Energy's nuclear facility in Pennsylvania, which would directly power its data centers with carbon-free energy. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
NVIDIA described Colossus as comprising 100,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
NVIDIA described Colossus as being used to train xAI’s Grok models. Evidence ↗
November 2024
· snapshot · dated to the day · contract
The CMA described a nonexclusive agreement for Google to supply compute capacity to Anthropic. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · contract
The CMA records a compute commitment by Anthropic to Google under their compute-supply agreement. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · announced
Anthropic announced AWS as its primary cloud and training partner. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · plan
Anthropic said it planned to use Trainium platforms to train its most advanced foundation models. Evidence ↗
December 2024
· announcement · dated to the day
Meta announced on 3 December 2024 a request for proposals to identify nuclear energy developers, aiming to add 1–4 GW of new US nuclear generation capacity delivered from the early 2030s, citing grids that power its data centers. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · announced
Louisiana Economic Development announced on 4 December 2024 that Meta would build a $10 billion artificial intelligence data center in Richland Parish, northeast Louisiana. Evidence ↗· announcement · dated to the day · plan
xAI said Colossus would soon expand to a combined 200,000 NVIDIA Hopper GPUs. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day · stated as in operation
DeepSeek reported training V3 on a cluster of 2,048 NVIDIA H800 GPUs. Evidence ↗· snapshot · dated to the day
The reported V3 cluster used NVIDIA H800 hardware. Evidence ↗
Dates stated for 2024 1 date
Each date as its record gives it, with who stated it. A target, deadline or term says what a party said would happen; a reported date says what a party said happened; a scheduled date had not been reached when the record’s sources were last checked. None is a dated record of what happened.