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.
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.
it’s getting hard to differentiate his ideas that are intentionally scams and his ideas that are just ketamine fueled insanity
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.
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
I fucking hate the speculative economy.
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.
Next up, a mass influx of refurbished GPUs that have been subjected ionizing radiation.
I guess this is insurance for when the bubble pops. It helps justify the “too big to fail”
Uh oh, vibe-engineered rockets.
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.
Companies that are too big to fail and need a bail out, should be automatically nationalised.
“B-b-but that will stifle innovation!”
Ding ding ding!
That the reason behind all the AI datacenters in space hubub? Makes sense. The usual “subsidize the losses” strategy.
Bypass paywall:
So he decided to ruin his one successful company. Which is successful because he wasn’t involved in running it until now.
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.
Please reboot the server, on site.
“…creating the worlds most overvalued private company.”
FTFY.
I’m not really convinced SpaceX was over valued IF Starship succeeds, but every single part of xAi was.
And also, that’s a pretty big if!
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.
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.
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?
It would require Von Neumann machines to do it. Of, course, we could end up being turned into grey goo with that sort of tech.
But, yeah, simply invent self-replicating nanotech. Shoot it at the moon, Mars, Ceres. Viola, data centers in space. Use the same tech to clean up the enviroment and eliminate oil dependence. Might as well rebuld the coral reefs and old growth forests. Also cures cancer and the common cold. And is the fountain of youth. And we all live happily ever after in the computer.
Well there will be them there amazing Optimus robots on board to do all that maintenance, obviously. Don’t worry, the great K has thought of all the angles, genius that he is and all.
Wow, that was harder to write than I thought it would be
