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Building AI supercomputers @ Fluidstack | Built crusoe.ai | GitHub Codespaces PM | First PM @ Firebase | Xoogler (GCP/Serverless Compute)
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Comment · 1 month ago
Not sure why this is getting downvoted, most of the new facilities (e.g. Stargate) are running closed loop systems. PUE goes up a bit if you have to use chillers, but ultimately it's faster/easier to build a large facility in a closed loop fashion than get water (permitting, treatment, etc.). NVIDIA pushing 45C inlet temps is to allow facilities to run dry coolers instead of chillers and make this even easier! Two phase cooling (required above ~3kW TDP) would eliminate water use in the secondary loop (if not the primary, eventually).
Comment · 3 months ago
One of our engineers built a full data center walkthrough tool on an AVP (complete with data pulled from the building CAD files, as well as our internal DC operations tools): https://www.linkedin.com/posts/fluidstack_our-latest-hackath...
I'm really excited to see AR take off in use cases like this, given how useful it would be to give all our technicians e.g. a legacy Google Glass (not the Intelligent Eyewear thing) and direct them to a rack, overlay information about a failed component, and walk them through the repair SOP.
Comment · 4 months ago
Fluidstack | SWE, SRE, Infrastructure, Security, Product, Design | SFO, SEA, NYC, ATX (Onsite)| Full-time | fluidstack.io
Fluidstack is building supercomputers for hyperscalers and frontier labs. We design, construct, and operate gigawatt scale datacenter campuses and then deploy, validate, and operate the GPUs and networking equipment inside.
We're deploying a GW of compute in 2026 in partnership with Anthropic (https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-invests-50-billion-...), and are continuing to scale out capacity in the US.
We're hiring product and engineering across the stack: everything from low level systems programming/firmware on XPUs, automating building controls and datacenter robotics, automating compute and network provisioning and recovery from failures, securing our networks and facilities, and software across dozens of verticals (warehousing, logistics, site selection, commercial operations, talent, legal, etc.)
View hundreds of open roles at fluidstack.io/jobs or send an email to careers at fluidstack dot io
Comment · 9 months ago
Fluidstack | SWE, SRE, Networking, Infra, TPM, PM, and many more | SFO, SEA, NYC, ATX, LON | Full-Time
Fluidstack is a full stack AI infrastructure company building datacenters, deploying GPUs, and operating hundreds of thousands of accelerators for top tier AI labs. We're also partnering closely with Anthropic (https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-invests-50-billion-...) on deploying GW scale clusters.
More info at https://careers.fluidstack.io/jobs or ping careers at fluidstack dot io!
Comment · 10 months ago
Fluidstack | SWE, SRE, Networking, Infra, TPM, PM, and many more | SF, NYC, ATX, LON | Full-Time
Fluidstack is a full stack AI infrastructure company building datacenters, deploying GPUs, and operating hundreds of thousands of accelerators for top tier AI labs. We're also partnering closely with Anthropic (https://www.anthropic.com/news/anthropic-invests-50-billion-...) on deploying GW scale clusters.
More info at https://careers.fluidstack.io/jobs or ping careers at fluidstack dot io!
Comment · 1 year ago
Same card worked via Apple wallet for other transactions, and the Visa thing is a known issue historically (https://discussions.apple.com/thread/255018680?sortBy=rank). A local friend confirmed the fix, but I can't seem to find any info from Apple or Visa about it.
Comment · 1 year ago
I'll bring up a cool additional option in this space: https://gaggimate.eu/
Less fully featured, but more open (Gaggiuino became closed source post people profiting off the OSS).
I'll also pitch another fun OSS project I sponsored a few years back to build an OSS pressure sensor and 0.1g scale: https://github.com/rhit-coultabm/Consistent-Cups-Espresso-Ac...
Since then it looks like Decent has OSS'ed the DecentScale: https://github.com/decentespresso/openscale
Comment · 1 year ago
Hilariously, the physical cards can only be topped up at add fare machines (cash only) or ATMs (cash only).
If you go down the "add a pasmo/suica on your phone" then you get into licensing issues with the other cabal (credit card issuers): you need to use an Amex to charge it via Apple Pay (IIRC Visa is now supported, but when I tried it last week my card was declined, so... YMMV).
Comment · 1 year ago
Fluidstack | Forward Deployed Engineer, SWE, SRE, Infrastructure, Networking, Devrel | London/SF/NYC or remote | fluidstack.io Fluidstack builds and operates GPU supercomputers for top AI labs, governments, and enterprises. Our customers include Mistral, Poolside, Black Forest Labs, Meta, and more.
Engineers at Fluidstack work on a wide variety of activities, including:
- Deploying clusters of 1,000+ GPUs and operating them with and for customers.
- Validating correctness and performance of underlying compute, storage, and networking infrastructure, and working with providers to optimize these subsystems.
- Migrating petabytes of data from public cloud platforms to local storage, as quickly and cost effectively as possible.
- Debugging issues anywhere in the stack, from “this server’s fan is blocked by a plastic bag” to “optimizing S3 dataloaders from buckets in different regions”.
- Building internal tooling to decrease deployment time and increase cluster reliability, including automation where the customer benefits clearly outweigh the implementation overhead.
We don't require prior experience with GPUs or AI/ML; we require a willingness to learn quickly, work hard, and obsess about customer success.
Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fluidstack or email careers at fluidstack dot io
Comment · 1 year ago
Drive by comment, I saw: https://unusualwhales.com/news/the-race-to-move-gold-bars-ou...
> The sudden shift is fueled by fears of tariffs as Donald Trump threatens a trade war that could disrupt the gold market. Traders, worried that gold imports may soon face tariffs, are rushing to get their bullion into the U.S. before the policy takes effect.
Comment · 1 year ago
Fluidstack | Forward Deployed Engineer, SWE, SRE, Infrastructure, Networking, Devrel | London/SF/NYC or remote | fluidstack.io
Fluidstack builds and operates GPU supercomputers for top AI labs, governments, and enterprises. Our customers include Mistral, Poolside, Black Forest Labs, Meta, and more.
Engineers at Fluidstack work on a wide variety of activities, including:
- Deploying clusters of 1,000+ GPUs and operating them with and for customers.
- Validating correctness and performance of underlying compute, storage, and networking infrastructure, and working with providers to optimize these subsystems.
- Migrating petabytes of data from public cloud platforms to local storage, as quickly and cost effectively as possible.
- Debugging issues anywhere in the stack, from “this server’s fan is blocked by a plastic bag” to “optimizing S3 dataloaders from buckets in different regions”.
- Building internal tooling to decrease deployment time and increase cluster reliability, including automation where the customer benefits clearly outweigh the implementation overhead.
We don't require prior experience with GPUs or AI/ML; we require a willingness to learn quickly, work hard, and obsess about customer success.
Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fluidstack or email careers at fluidstack dot io
Comment · 1 year ago
Fluidstack | Forward Deployed Engineer, SWE, SRE, Infrastructure, Networking | London/SF/NYC or remote | fluidstack.io
Fluidstack builds and operates GPU supercomputers for top AI labs, governments, and enterprises. Our customers include Mistral, Poolside, Black Forest Labs, Meta, and more.
Engineers at Fluidstack work on a wide variety of activities, including:
- Deploying clusters of 1,000+ GPUs and operating them with and for customers.
- Validating correctness and performance of underlying compute, storage, and networking infrastructure, and working with providers to optimize these subsystems.
- Migrating petabytes of data from public cloud platforms to local storage, as quickly and cost effectively as possible.
- Debugging issues anywhere in the stack, from “this server’s fan is blocked by a plastic bag” to “optimizing S3 dataloaders from buckets in different regions”.
- Building internal tooling to decrease deployment time and increase cluster reliability, including automation where the customer benefits clearly outweigh the implementation overhead.
We don't require prior experience with GPUs or AI/ML; we require a willingness to learn quickly, work hard, and obsess about customer success.
Apply here: https://jobs.ashbyhq.com/fluidstack/fb45b5dc-614e-40dd-ac5d-... or reach out to mike at fluidstack dot io
Comment · 1 year ago
Two things:
1. I believe they require that you have an acquired specific landing page (e.g. crusoe.ai/acquired), which we saw directly as conversions through to our waitlist. The volume was lower than other channels, but the signal was much, much higher.
2. To @scarface_74's comment, "you talk to customer and you can ask them where they heard about you from" is mostly why I made the claim. In particular, when fundraising, basically everyone I talked to said, "I heard about you on Acquired, really interesting business model that I hadn't considered, let's talk more about it."
Sponsorship isn't cheap (I would go so far as to call it expensive), but relative to spending an equivalent amount on search or display ads/billboards on 101/etc., I think it was the right choice at the time.
My only analogy for this is what I call "cruise missile marketing" where you're investing a lot of time/money in building something that is very specifically targeted at high value buyers. It works really well for large, infrequent transactions (raising capital, selling GPU clusters, etc.) and less well for commodity SaaS or B2C products where volume >> everything.