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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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[–] 5 points 8 months ago (1 child)

That the reason behind all the AI datacenters in space hubub? Makes sense. The usual "subsidize the losses" strategy.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    I could have seen the opposite, too, where xAI pays spaceX gobs of money for tons of datacenter launches in advance, bubble pops, xAI goes under and spaceX still has the money. But ya I think this is "the govt won't let spaceX fail, pile all the riskiest shit into that"

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