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.
“…creating the world’s 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!
For sure. I don’t doubt they’ll get it functional and getting payloads to space, but the entire premise is on full rapid reuseability, including same day relaunch of starship. That is still a very very very big if.
If they can’t get to that point, it’s not worth anywhere near what it is being predicted to be worth.
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.
yes but DNS is terrestrial, so you could just ban the web portals and apps on earth.
Yes you could VPN to a non-compliant country, but you can already do that without a spater spenter
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.
Heat dissipation was my very first thought. Musk’s whole premise is absolute horseshit with modern and even near-future tech.
It’s not a problem like “get heavy thing off ground”, where we can study principles of lift, throw fossil fuels at rocketry, etc. There is no magic bullet for “move this massive amount of heat somewhere else”; entropy has too much to say on the subject.
There is no magic bullet for “move this massive amount of heat somewhere else”
Space does let you dissipate heat via radiation (just not convection or conduction). Space radiators are a well understood and often-used technology.
The problem with space data centers isn’t the technology, we have the technology. It’s the cost. Everything in space is orders of magnitude more expensive than terrestrially. It’s simply not economically feasible to build a data center in space when you can build hundreds for the same cost on Earth.
it’s getting hard to differentiate his ideas that are intentionally scams and his ideas that are just ketamine fueled insanity
You would have really liked the comedian we saw last night. Epstein files were the main topic. Sammy Obeid. Good stuff.
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
great place to store the expensive child porn generators. far away in space, where a molotov can never reach.
i fucking hate this timeline.
burying his losses.
100%. They’ve announced the plans for SpaceX to have an IPO, this will basically eliminate all of his losses even if they just shut down xAI immediately following acquisition (which they won’t do just yet, because people are still bag holding AI investments.)
This guy might be a dumb fuck, but he’s the smartest dumb fuck in the billionaire game.Edit: Some of his capital investors might have told him that they want out of xAI because they see where the wind is blowing. This gets them out with profit if they pull it off fast enough.
This (SpaceX IPO) is going to be a massive rug pull, for the 2nd round of public traders and I bet that he’s got structure in place to ensure that even after selling billions of dollars of shares he still holds 51% or some shit, or that his annual compensation is $0+1% of the company.
10 years ago I would have bought into a SpaceX IPO. Not today.I don’t think he is dumb. He is without decency though. He doesn’t care who he hurts and I have no doubt he will hurt a lot of people in the future.
Strapping a lead albatross to your space program is certainly a choice
Incredible there are people dumber than him giving him money when he says things like this. He is an absolute conman.
THERE’S NO INTERNET ON MARS
a good salesman would ride an ai guided rocket to mars.
One day we’ll be shooting satellites out of the sky for sport
smoke screen. expect some mirrors
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? "
Company with largest stock valuation
=/=
Most valuable company
No one has said this is how Elysium starts?
This is how Elysium starts.
Something something torment nexus something something.
Elysium actually had some semblance of working technology, though.
And it will all come crashing down
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.
