Remember when I told you a few months ago that Anthropic had a new Claude model named Mythos that was really good at software development and finding bugs in old software? Remember when I explained about models not too long ago? Remember my annotation that said this stuff was changing faster than you could change your underwear? Remember when I said there were three levels of models with Claude. Good better and best... add a new one to the stack. Let's call this, Bestest.

Fable is Claude Mythos packaged for consumers. I honestly have not tried it yet, but I have a very ambitious idea that I am going to try to tackle using Fable. Apparently it's even more compute intensive than Opus (which got less intensive). This means more power and more water. So you should probably not use Fable to tell the time.

Let's talk about data centers in general for a minute. I asked Claude to go out to the Internet and retrieve these numbers for me. Verify them and simplify out to what I wanted. This is what it responded with:

As of June 13, 2026, there are 772 data centers under construction in the United States.

The buildout is wildly lopsided. Two states are doing most of the heavy lifting. Texas leads with 140 data centers under construction, just ahead of Virginia with 136. They are the only two states with more than 100 projects underway.

After that, the drop is steep. Georgia comes in at 56 and Ohio at 51.

Just how concentrated is it? 12 states have no data centers under construction at all, and another 11 have fewer than five.

So while the headlines talk about thousands of projects in the pipeline, the number with shovels actually in the ground right now is 772, and roughly a third of those sit in just Texas and Virginia.

The backlash against these data centers is real. But in the United States money is king and I can't see these slowing down significantly. We need to change what we consider acceptable when we allow these companies to build these things. I hate to tell you, but regulation might just be what we need. Texas and Virginia are going to look like motherboards from the sky. (I am not a Star Wars person but apparently there were some planets in Star Wars that looked like the surface of them had been transformed. We are well on the way)

Anthropic is set to IPO this fall. This means going from a private company to a publicly held company. The thinking now is that it will debut as a $1 trillion company. For the record that is 999,000,000,000+1,000,000,000. 1 billion is 999,000,000+1,000,000. US debt is nearly $40 trillion. I'll keep my mouth shut about that. Thomas Massie does that job for me. Don't get me started on the debt and how we've been doing nothing but paying off the interest for so long. Sound familiar anyone who has ever been in credit card debt? What did it take to get out of it? Do you really think the problem is going to be solved by paying less taxes? (I get irritated with people who talk about my tax dollars going to this and that. Bitch, we ain't been paying nothing but interest for a long damn time)

Moving on… in preparation for this IPO it would seem like Anthropic is preparing to show as much profit and revenue as possible. Fable and the Opus models only seem to be available if you pay. Sonnet is available for free, but by default it was set to low effort. I was able to change this, but it did not happen by default. Now this is where I think Claude shines. People seem to be willing to pay for Claude. To be honest with you, I would be willing to pay more. (a year ago, I would have told you never)

Written by B. On June 13th, 2026. Assistance by Claude. Image creation by Google's Gemini & B.

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