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In a blog post, Musk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with “terrestrial solutions,” and Silicon Valley will soon need to build data centers in space to power its AI ambitions.

This dumb fuck. Unfortunately, his boosters will be all-in on this messaging. Whatever.

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[–] BioDriver@lemmy.world 133 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Someone needed a distraction from his name appearing all over the Epstein files

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 22 points 1 week ago

Every article needs to read "Elon Musk, who's name repeatedly appeared in the Epstein files"

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 120 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Financial trickery is what this is. Rolling one failing business into the next, Tesla will follow soon. It's incredible that this is even legal, but of course nothing matters anymore in Trump's America.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

The stupid thing is that it‘s perfectly legal as long as nobody looks into it and because it‘s a US corporation nobody will look into it.

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[–] stoy@lemmy.zip 73 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

"...creating the world's most overvalued private company."

FTFY.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 12 points 1 week ago (2 children)

I'm not really convinced SpaceX was over valued IF Starship succeeds, but every single part of xAi was.

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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 44 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Bullshit. He’s playing move the debt around.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 17 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Absolutely. And if the AI market takes a hit it will barely affect a government contracted space program that will get a taxpayer funded bailout if it has any trouble at all.

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[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 43 points 1 week ago (4 children)

The government will not let SpaceX fail, it’s a strategic asset and Musk knows this. He is going to tie his Xai to it and saddle it with all the debt it is incurring. When the AI bubble pops he will be able to ask for bail outs to keep SpaceX afloat.

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 37 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Companies that are too big to fail and need a bail out, should be automatically nationalised.

[–] AnonKingfisher@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (1 children)

"B-b-but that will stifle innovation!"

[–] mcv@lemmy.zip 8 points 1 week ago

It will most certainly stifle innovative ways to leech more profit while the taxpayer is left holding the bag.

Ah, who am I kidding? They'll find something new. It will just spark more innovation.

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 41 points 1 week ago

We NEED Datacenters in SPACE so we can Make Better CHILD PORN with GROK!

[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 40 points 1 week ago (1 children)

You mean that guy who desperately tried to invite himself to an island to rape kids, but was deemed too big of a weirdo and jackass?

Yeah cool, go AI rockets or whatever.

I guess do feel bad for the innovators and engineers that are doing actual cool shit in his companies. Must suck to be downstream of that shithead. So much potential, so much stigma (for the company, not the pedo fuckhead)

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[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 39 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (3 children)

Putting AI datacenters in space has got to the be dumbest idea conceived by Elon yet. There has to be several dozen engineering challenges to even make that happen and when all is said and done it would make absolutely no financial sense to actually do it. This is just yet another attempt by Elon to hype up spacex for an IPO. It's a very poor attempt at that.

EDIT (1 day after initial comment): There is one angle I didn't think of yesterday but just dawned on me. Now that Twitter office was raided by authorities in France, perhaps Elon thinks he can put datacenters in space to get around the jurisdictions of countries. He might be thinking by putting datacenter in space that can beam data directly through starlink he can basically side step local law. He may think by having CSAM generating datacenters in space it can't be raided and be shut down easily by terrestrial law enforcement. Obviously this is not how law and law enforcement works but I think there is a decent chance Elon is dumb enough to think his idea would work.

[–] Quill7513@slrpnk.net 23 points 1 week ago (1 children)

it's getting hard to differentiate his ideas that are intentionally scams and his ideas that are just ketamine fueled insanity

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[–] Dalimey@ttrpg.network 10 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Isn't heat management like one of the stickiest problems in long term space travel? Bc a vacuum doesn't have anything it can transfer heat to so it can't cool down. And this guy wants to establish data centers for which heat management is also its biggest problem.

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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 35 points 1 week ago (7 children)

In a blog post, Musk said the acquisition was warranted because global electricity demand for AI cannot be met with “terrestrial solutions,” and Silicon Valley will soon need to build data centers in space to power its AI ambitions.

Lololololol

Dumbass McScammer at it again. His starship still can't even bring a fucking banana to LEO but sure, pets move entire datacenters there.

He has lied about everything for decades now, this too, ain't gonna happen.

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[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 35 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Space is the worst place for high powered servers because of all the heat involved along with the inability to perform maintenance. It's just a grift, it will not be profitable to put HPC GPUs in orbit.

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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 29 points 1 week ago

Valuable to whom?

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 26 points 1 week ago (1 children)

hopefully his shitty AI will tank his nazi rockets. one can only hope.

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 31 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (7 children)

It kind of sucks because the people working at spaceX are actually doing great things as a whole.

Just sucks a person like muskrat is the face of it.

[–] rwdf@lemmy.world 25 points 1 week ago (7 children)

They should work for NASA instead.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 12 points 1 week ago

NASA has contracted out basically all their rockets. We need spacex. Elon needs to be in jail. If only for threatening national security with this dumb move. Never mind being a Nazi and election interference.

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[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 25 points 1 week ago

So he decided to ruin his one successful company. Which is successful because he wasn't involved in running it until now.

[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 24 points 1 week ago

Company with largest stock valuation

=/=

Most valuable company

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 23 points 1 week ago (2 children)

One day soon he’ll run out of companies to eat each other and the creditor bill will come due.

[–] Threeme2189@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 week ago (3 children)

I wonder which American taxpayers will foot the bill?

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 22 points 1 week ago (11 children)

Space solar panels and datacenters is pure fraud. Merger is purely to ruin one established company with revenue, mostly government funded, with an anchor to sink it, but help mecha hitler control skynet.

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[–] cv_octavio@piefed.ca 21 points 1 week ago

Lol "Valuable" ooookay then

[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 18 points 1 week ago

How long until he rebrands Tesla to X Automobiles?

Naming everything to "X" is a cartoon villain move, except we don't have a superhero to fight him.

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 17 points 1 week ago (2 children)

Hide the company losing money in the company making money. He has done this before.

And I’m sure this has nothing to do with grok on X creating CA.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 16 points 1 week ago (3 children)

What if we put the pedophilia...in space??

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[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 15 points 1 week ago (16 children)

What advantage does space provide at all?

You have to transport heavy great into a place with no cooling capacity... What?

[–] rimu@piefed.social 14 points 1 week ago

No advantage, in fact a massive disadvantage.

Fascists lie.

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[–] Hegar@fedia.io 13 points 1 week ago

Nationalize it. Take his company, his wealth and jail him for his crimes.

[–] TheHotze@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Makes sense. Wants the bailouts when it all crashes, doesn't want terrestrial data center regulations so he can get away with whatever.

[–] hector@lemmy.today 10 points 1 week ago

Definitely getting bail outs when it fails. Fucking plutocracy sucks, privatized profits, socialized losses.

[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 13 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Space X should be confiscated and rolled into NASA. We the American taxpayers pay for this lunatic nonsense because of Reagan and the neoliberal that followed. all the profits are privatized and funneled to a South African Zionist Nazi pedofile. When the US had public services everything wasn’t a scam like it is now. Using our tax dollars to “privatize” everything is what ruined the country

[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 13 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Datacenters on the bottom of the sea are useless because of the difficulties of hardware maintenance and the snake oil salesman is trying to sell out space datacenters now.

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[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 11 points 1 week ago

Bobs : “What is it you do?”

Elon : "Well--well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can't you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people? "

[–] elrik@lemmy.world 11 points 1 week ago

If xAI disappeared tomorrow, literally nothing of value would have been lost. I'm not sure who would even notice immediately as I still have never met a single human being in real life who personally uses X.

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)
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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 10 points 1 week ago (1 children)

@Grok the primary fuel flow regulator is showing a red light, what's wrong with it?

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[–] HumanOnEarth@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 week ago (2 children)

No one has said this is how Elysium starts?

This is how Elysium starts.

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[–] SabinStargem@lemmy.today 9 points 1 week ago

This seems like a good way to turn a golden goose into a turducken. Elon really needed some of Aesop's fables in his upbringing.

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