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Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company (www.wired.com)
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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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[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago (2 children)

Not to mention the MASSIVE drawbacks to having data centers in space. The guy is going to ruin SpaceX, too.

[–] Soggy@lemmy.world 3 points 9 hours ago

I'm really trying to think of a single upside to putting it in space. Unfiltered solar power, does that matter at all? Not that you would ever break even on the cost.

[–] boogiebored@lemmy.world 2 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Imagine his dumb goober voice

“Ackshually - it’s it’s it’s quite cool in space - practically near a useful enough temperature for graphic processing units to dissipate heat”

[–] PattyMcB@lemmy.world 1 points 8 hours ago (1 children)

Lol yeah... not how that works at all