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A rival hands over a whole campus after hitting network walls

development2026-06-13

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SpaceX handed the full capacity of its Memphis Colossus 1 to Anthropic after its own teams hit latency and aging-network walls that made training Grok across three campuses impractical, shifting the bottleneck from owning compute to orchestrating it.

Reporting date: 2026-06-13 (not necessarily the event date)

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Welcome to June 13, 2026 (theinnermostloop.substack.com)

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A lab signs a dozen letters of intent to lease its own datacenters

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A rival hands over a whole campus after hitting network walls
Innermost Loop KB — secondary record
Reporting date: 2026-06-13
KB permalink: https://nicholsn.github.io/innermost-loop-kb/developments/2026-06-13-the-bottleneck-shifts-to-orchestration
Claim: SpaceX handed the full capacity of its Memphis Colossus 1 to Anthropic after its own teams hit latency and aging-network walls that made training Grok across three campuses impractical, shifting the bottleneck from owning compute to orchestrating it.
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- Welcome to June 13, 2026 — https://theinnermostloop.substack.com/p/welcome-to-june-13-2026
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