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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    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.

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      it’s getting hard to differentiate his ideas that are intentionally scams and his ideas that are just ketamine fueled insanity

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      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.