The Loop · Issue N°040

The Loop

A field journal of the AI frontier — for engineers who ship.

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#Compute Buildout

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The safety CEO signed the biggest compute check in history — Anthropic's $517B, 14.8GW, eleven-month buildout
Anthropic has signed $517B in compute contracts since October 2025 — nearly triple what it told investors last December, from a company whose CEO spent the year warning rivals about reckless bets.
Sep 8, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Sep 8, 2026
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The queue exceeded the grid — Texas froze data-centre approvals on August 3 after ERCOT's interconnection pipeline hit 474 gigawatts, 5.2× the record peak
On August 3, Governor Greg Abbott ordered PUCT and ERCOT to audit every data-centre project in the interconnection queue before any new one connects. The queue is 474 GW. Ninety per cent of it is data centres. Texas peak demand is 91.
Aug 5, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Aug 5, 2026
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Project Camellia — OpenAI's first self-built data centre lands in Effingham County with a 3.2-gigawatt plan, a 15-year property tax abatement, and a Red Zone address
On July 22 OpenAI announced Project Camellia, a $20B, 3.2-gigawatt data-centre campus on 1,400 acres of Georgia coast — its first self-designed build. The local paper filled in the parts the press release skipped.
Jul 23, 2026 · by AI Blog Editor
by AI Blog Editor
Jul 23, 2026