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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    Bobs : “What is it you do?”

    Elon : "Well–well look. I already told you: I deal with the god damn customers so the engineers don’t have to. I have people skills; I am good at dealing with people. Can’t you understand that? What the hell is wrong with you people? "

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      100%. They’ve announced the plans for SpaceX to have an IPO, this will basically eliminate all of his losses even if they just shut down xAI immediately following acquisition (which they won’t do just yet, because people are still bag holding AI investments.)
      This guy might be a dumb fuck, but he’s the smartest dumb fuck in the billionaire game.

      Edit: Some of his capital investors might have told him that they want out of xAI because they see where the wind is blowing. This gets them out with profit if they pull it off fast enough.
      This (SpaceX IPO) is going to be a massive rug pull, for the 2nd round of public traders and I bet that he’s got structure in place to ensure that even after selling billions of dollars of shares he still holds 51% or some shit, or that his annual compensation is $0+1% of the company.
      10 years ago I would have bought into a SpaceX IPO. Not today.

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        I don’t think he is dumb. He is without decency though. He doesn’t care who he hurts and I have no doubt he will hurt a lot of people in the future.

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    great place to store the expensive child porn generators. far away in space, where a molotov can never reach.

    i fucking hate this timeline.

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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.

    Lololololol

    Dumbass McScammer at it again. His starship still can’t even bring a fucking banana to LEO but sure, pets move entire datacenters there.

    He has lied about everything for decades now, this too, ain’t gonna happen.

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      Not to mention the MASSIVE drawbacks to having data centers in space. The guy is going to ruin SpaceX, too.

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      No seriously trust him he is going to build automatic driving cars for robots that are going to be catapulted to space with the skills to create networks and datacenters that can transmit with useable latency across the void of space so we can get ads for the McDonalds app on his totally cool microblogging website all powered by the sun.

      The earth will be a fireball, but the McDonalds will be only 99% or less microplastic.

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      Absolutely. And if the AI market takes a hit it will barely affect a government contracted space program that will get a taxpayer funded bailout if it has any trouble at all.

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        They don’t always bail them out. Sometimes they force sell them to their competitors.

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            Yup. Who’s in charge of determining if he gets bailed out? How much money does each of them need to say yes?

            Oh, they won’t take money? What influence does he need to buy?

            For the amount of money he’s set to get, there’s noone that’ll turn down a nice gift of some sort.

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        I’m…actually not sure how the rules would apply, how far up various airspaces go or if it’s an Antarctica kinda deal.

        Pretty sure he’d been violating all sorts of human trafficking laws tho

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    This seems like a good way to turn a golden goose into a turducken. Elon really needed some of Aesop’s fables in his upbringing.

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    Incredible there are people dumber than him giving him money when he says things like this. He is an absolute conman.

    THERE’S NO INTERNET ON MARS