It's all a scam that would be investigated in normal times. Tesla's cars and robots will need AI to function (albeit xAI seems to be failing spectacularly), and xAI is hemorrhaging cash, but he loses leverage over Tesla's board if the AI division went to the Tesla. SpaceX investors should be pissed they're going to be carrying it now, and Tesla investors should be pissed as well.
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2026
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Arrest this pedo
A million satellites he says. That's 100 satellites per starship launch. 5 times per day, every day, for five years. By the time you're done, the first ones are burned out and you have to do it all again. And that's assuming one GPU per satellite because solar panels even in space can't pull enough power to feed multiple of those hungry things.
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I guess this is insurance for when the bubble pops. It helps justify the "too big to fail"
Doesn't one of those companies rely on government contracts? And now that company generates CSAM on demand?
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How little of an understanding of how the natural world works do you need to have to think that data centers in space are a good idea? Nothing to say of economics and logistics. Or am I missing something big here?
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Uh oh, vibe-engineered rockets.
But that was the one place that hadn't been corrupted by capitalism!
And it will all come crashing down
“Valuable”
Now if he rolls these into Tesla he’ll be on his way to ticking off one of the requirements to unlock his completely legitimate cagillion dollar pay package.
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Data centers in space sounds like one hell of an expensive investment for something that has not once shown any profitability yet, and are in fact most likely about to burst its bubble in the near future.
great place to store the expensive child porn generators. far away in space, where a molotov can never reach.
i fucking hate this timeline.
Or...he just tanked the value of both.