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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    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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    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.

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      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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        They don’t always bail them out. Sometimes they force sell them to their competitors.

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            Yup. Who’s in charge of determining if he gets bailed out? How much money does each of them need to say yes?

            Oh, they won’t take money? What influence does he need to buy?

            For the amount of money he’s set to get, there’s noone that’ll turn down a nice gift of some sort.

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    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.

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    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.

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    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.

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