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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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[–] anon_8675309@lemmy.world 29 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Bullshit. He’s playing move the debt around.

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 10 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

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.

[–] JcbAzPx@lemmy.world 2 points 6 hours ago (1 children)

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

[–] RememberTheApollo_@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

The richest man on Earth will absolutely get a bailout on our dime and not spend a cent of his net worth.

[–] rumba@lemmy.zip 1 points 1 hour ago

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.