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 (5 children)

You do realise it's already being planned for execution right?

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (4 children)

    Are you rage baiting? I'm starting to like Lemmy's block feature but I don't know if you're doing this on purpose or by accident.

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (3 children)

    As michevious as it might be, here's a paper explaining the potential of using solar to run TPUs https://research.google/blog/exploring-a-space-based-scalable-ai-infrastructure-system-design/

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  • [–] 1 point 9 months ago (2 children)

    Your entire half of this conversation is one big straw man argument.

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