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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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[–] HexesofVexes@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago
[–] frustrated_phagocytosis@fedia.io 5 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Doesn't one of those companies rely on government contracts? And now that company generates CSAM on demand?

[–] NotMyOldRedditName@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (1 children)

Government contracts used to be their biggest revenue source, but it's Starlink now.

They still need the profits from government contracts though to help fund the capital expenditures to try and get starship working, but they aren't reliant on them like they used to be.

[–] FreddiesLantern@leminal.space 2 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago)

You see if you combine 2 bubbles, you’ll get an even bigger pop! Yay!

[–] FrowingFostek@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

I fucking hate the speculative economy.

[–] FancyPantsFIRE@lemmy.world 4 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Now if he rolls these into Tesla he’ll be on his way to ticking off one of the requirements to unlock his completely legitimate cagillion dollar pay package.

That agreement should have said excluding any acquisitions or mergers.

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

Cacadillo?! Is that like an armadillo, but poopie???

[–] Archangel1313@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 days ago

Or...he just tanked the value of both.

[–] CosmoNova@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Time to break it up because it‘s a monopoly that spans over several industries for no good reason at all but oh wait the USA is a dysfunctional mess so nothing will be done about it.

[–] HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Nationalize his companies. And shoot his ass into space so he can go hang out with the roadster floating around the solar system.

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[–] melfie@lemy.lol 1 points 2 days ago

Next up, a mass influx of refurbished GPUs that have been subjected ionizing radiation.

[–] el_eh_chase@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago
[–] verdi@tarte.nuage-libre.fr 1 points 2 days ago

Noice, the US already subsidises spaceX just like uber with subsidised rides, time to further subsidise spaceX. 

A brief look at fundamentals sbows reusable rockets make no financial sense. This guy's continuous scam of the entirety of humanity is solid proof the overwhelming majority of us are fucking idiots. 

[–] fartographer@lemmy.world 1 points 2 days ago

It's notoriously difficult to cool things in space. This'll be fun...

[–] Quexotic@infosec.pub 0 points 1 day ago

AI and highly volatile fuel. What could possibly go wrong?

Smh

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