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Elon Musk Is Rolling xAI Into SpaceX—Creating the World’s Most Valuable Private Company (www.wired.com)
submitted 9 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
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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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[–] 1 point 9 months ago

Yeah it is a proven tech but requires quite a lot of space/weight and usually when satellites get the most energy from solar panels they also "generate" the most heat.

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