Submitted 5 hours ago by some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.wired.com/story/spacex-acquires-xai-elon-musk/
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.
How little of an understanding of how the natural world works do you need to have to think that data centers in space are a good idea? Nothing to say of economics and logistics. Or am I missing something big here?
“…creating the worlds most overvalued company.”
FTFY.
I’m not really convinced SpaceX was over valued IF Starship succeeds, but every single part of xAi was.
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.
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.
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.
Someone needed a distraction from his name appearing all over the Epstein files
A million satellites he says. That’s 100 satellites per starship launch. 5 times per day, every day, for five years. By the time you’re done, the first ones are burned out and you have to do it all again. And that’s assuming one GPU per satellite because solar panels even in space can’t pull enough power to feed multiple of those hungry things.
Energy is the least of their concerns, getting rid of the heat is a much bigger problem.
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)
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.
hopefully his shitty AI will tank his nazi rockets. one can only hope.
It kind of sucks because the people working at spaceX are actually doing great things as a whole.
Just sucks a person like musk is the face of it.
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.
Agreed. I just got banned from techtakes for pointing this out but the Falcon 9 rocket is the most reliable launch vehicle today.
We NEED Datacenters in SPACE so we can Make Better CHILD PORN with GROK!
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.
xAI business model: hype SpaceX business model: government contracts
The contracts stay when the hype dies. By merging the two companies, Musk avoids the collapse of one. To make this work, he needs more government contracts - I see a lot of groveling and boot licking in his immediate future.
This capitalism looks and smells a lot like good old USSR style communism.
“Now they have to bail me out.”
Nationalize it. Take his company, his wealth and jail him for his crimes.
What advantage does space provide at all?
You have to transport heavy great into a place with no cooling capacity… What?
No advantage, in fact a massive disadvantage.
Fascists lie.
No cooling capacity? Isn’t it the extreme opposite?
No, it’s pretty hard to get rid of heat in space, vacuum is a very good insulator. The only way is radiation.
No, space isn’t cold it’s empty. You need something to conduct away the heat, otherwise all you can do is passively radiate it
mainly no red tape trying to connect to a power grid, plus “free” solar power.
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.
Salt water is a bitch.
The point of these being in space is there is no maintenance.
Or…he just tanked the value of both.
Doesn't one of those companies rely on government contracts? And now that company generates CSAM on demand?
Government contracts used to be their biggest revenue source, but it’s Starlink now.
They still need the government contracts though to help fund the capital expenditures to try and get starship working.
It’s notoriously difficult to cool things in space. This’ll be fun…
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.
Cacadillo?! Is that like an armadillo, but poopie???
flamingo_pinyata@sopuli.xyz 1 minute ago
So he decided to ruin his one successful company. Which is successful because he wasn’t involved in running it until now.