Major grift vibes, inventing half-baked reasoning to justify massive valuations.
If money wasnt so deeply entwined with politics at this point, this is the sort of news that would launch fraud investigations.
xAI joins SpaceX
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#42This is either insanely ambitious genius or pure shithousery. I guess we'll find out which one it is in 10 years
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#43I still don't understand the "data center in space" narrative. How are they going to solve the cooling issue?
Cooling a datacenter in space isn't really any harder than cooling a starlink in space, the ratio of solar panels to radiating area will have to be about the same. There is nothing uniquely heat-producing about GPUs, ultimately almost all energy collected by a satellite's solar panels ends up as heat in the satellite.
IMO the big problem is the lack of maintainability.
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#445 days after Tesla gave xAi 2 billion.
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#45> it is possible to put 500 to 1000 TW/year of AI satellites into deep space, meaningfully ascend the Kardashev scale and harness a non-trivial percentage of the Sun’s power
We currently make around 1 TW of photovoltaic cells per year, globally. The proposal here is to launch that much to space every 9 hours, complete with attached computers, continuously, from the moon.
edit: Also, this would capture a very trivial percentage of the Sun's power. A few trillionths per year.
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#46> Current advances in AI are dependent on large terrestrial data centers, which require immense amounts of power and cooling. You know what's even harder to cool? > Orbital Data Centers
Nobody knows cooling satellites better than SpaceX
Maybe so, but the actual SpaceX engineers are powerless to stop Elon running his mouth.
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#47I still don't understand the "data center in space" narrative. How are they going to solve the cooling issue?
Maintenance cost must be pretty fucking insane
This "Space Datacenter" sounds like biggest bullshit in last decade, which is pretty damn fucking high bar.
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#50SpaceX is too big to fail. It's important for national security.
I wonder if Elon wants to tangle all his businesses into SpaceX so they are all kept afloat by SpaceX's importance.