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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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[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

You see if you combine 2 bubbles, you’ll get an even bigger pop! Yay!

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

Time to break it up because it‘s a monopoly that spans over several industries for no good reason at all but oh wait the USA is a dysfunctional mess so nothing will be done about it.

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 2 points 1 week ago

I fucking hate the speculative economy.

[–] el_eh_chase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 1 week ago
[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 1 week ago

Noice, the US already subsidises spaceX just like uber with subsidised rides, time to further subsidise spaceX. 

A brief look at fundamentals sbows reusable rockets make no financial sense. This guy's continuous scam of the entirety of humanity is solid proof the overwhelming majority of us are fucking idiots. 

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 1 week ago

It's notoriously difficult to cool things in space. This'll be fun...

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