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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[–] 25 points 7 months ago (5 children)

One day soon he’ll run out of companies to eat each other and the creditor bill will come due.

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  • [–] 9 points 7 months ago (3 children)

    I wonder which American taxpayers will foot the bill?

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  • [–] 7 points 7 months ago (2 children)

    All of them!

    Because the rich can’t technically be taxpayers if they don’t pay in the first place.

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  • [–] 1 point 7 months ago* (1 child)

    Odd to say that while referring to Musk, a person who famously paid the most taxes by any individual ever in a year; over >$10B in a single year.

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