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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 145 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] KryptonNerd@slrpnk.net 23 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] cronenthal@discuss.tchncs.de 126 points 3 weeks 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 30 points 3 weeks 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 75 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

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

FTFY.

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 12 points 3 weeks 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 46 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Bullshit. He’s playing move the debt around.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 17 points 2 weeks 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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[–] Hayduke@lemmy.world 45 points 3 weeks 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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[–] cyberwolfie@lemmy.ml 44 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

Can we also take a moment to acknowledge how utterly unhinged this part is?

"This marks not just the next chapter, but the next book in SpaceX and xAI's mission: scaling to make a sentient sun to understand the Universe and extend the light of consciousness to the stars!"

[–] Earthman_Jim@lemmy.zip 11 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

yeah wtf.... a sentient sun? First of all, how do we know the sun isn't sentient? And if it was/is why assume it would give a shit about humanity?

But also wtf... Like, he's trying to merge the sun with AI? Am I taking it too literally? He's trying to create god? So he can ask for forgiveness for being a pedo pos?

[–] zalgotext@sh.itjust.works 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's a bunch of technobabble loosely related to his harebrained scheme to launch a fuckload of solar powered AI servers into LEO.

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[–] Dead_or_Alive@lemmy.world 44 points 3 weeks 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 42 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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[–] BigMacHole@sopuli.xyz 42 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] fuzzywombat@lemmy.world 41 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks 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 24 points 3 weeks 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 11 points 3 weeks 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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[–] CorrectAlias@piefed.blahaj.zone 36 points 3 weeks 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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[–] phoenixz@lemmy.ca 35 points 2 weeks 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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[–] sturmblast@lemmy.world 31 points 3 weeks ago

Valuable to whom?

[–] bagsy@lemmy.world 28 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

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

[–] NarrativeBear@lemmy.world 33 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (3 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 28 points 3 weeks ago (7 children)

They should work for NASA instead.

[–] MrSpArkle@lemmy.ca 13 points 3 weeks 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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[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 9 points 3 weeks ago (4 children)

The people at SpaceX are poisoning landscapes that used to be neighborhoods with toxic waste because the company doesn‘t give a shit about the environment, people or the planet. Fuck whoever works at SpaceX and partakes in this. Oh, they‘re also making Musk even more powerful so that‘s a double L.

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[–] humanspiral@lemmy.ca 26 points 3 weeks 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 25 points 3 weeks ago

Lol "Valuable" ooookay then

[–] puppinstuff@lemmy.ca 25 points 3 weeks ago (5 children)

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

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[–] tate@lemmy.sdf.org 25 points 2 weeks ago

Company with largest stock valuation

=/=

Most valuable company

[–] flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 25 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] myfunnyaccountname@lemmy.zip 21 points 3 weeks 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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[–] ZILtoid1991@lemmy.world 18 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 17 points 3 weeks 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 3 weeks ago

No advantage, in fact a massive disadvantage.

Fascists lie.

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[–] Taleya@aussie.zone 16 points 2 weeks ago (3 children)

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

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[–] driving_crooner@lemmy.eco.br 15 points 3 weeks 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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[–] Formfiller@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks 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

[–] TheHotze@lemmy.world 15 points 3 weeks 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 11 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] Hegar@fedia.io 14 points 3 weeks ago

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

[–] UltraGiGaGigantic@lemmy.ml 11 points 3 weeks ago

"Now they have to bail me out."

[–] elrik@lemmy.world 11 points 2 weeks 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.

[–] skozzii@lemmy.ca 11 points 2 weeks 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? "

[–] desmosthenes@lemmy.world 11 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)
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[–] Etterra@discuss.online 10 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

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

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