Next up, a mass influx of refurbished GPUs that have been subjected ionizing radiation.
this post was submitted on 03 Feb 2026
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Nationalize his companies. And shoot his ass into space so he can go hang out with the roadster floating around the solar system.
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AI and highly volatile fuel. What could possibly go wrong?
Smh
Someone needed a distraction from his name appearing all over the Epstein files
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Financial trickery is what this is. Rolling one failing business into the next, Tesla will follow soon. It's incredible that this is even legal, but of course nothing matters anymore in Trump's America.
The stupid thing is that it‘s perfectly legal as long as nobody looks into it and because it‘s a US corporation nobody will look into it.
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"...creating the world's most overvalued private company."
FTFY.
I'm not really convinced SpaceX was over valued IF Starship succeeds, but every single part of xAi was.
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You mean that guy who desperately tried to invite himself to an island to rape kids, but was deemed too big of a weirdo and jackass?
Yeah cool, go AI rockets or whatever.
I guess do feel bad for the innovators and engineers that are doing actual cool shit in his companies. Must suck to be downstream of that shithead. So much potential, so much stigma (for the company, not the pedo fuckhead)
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We NEED Datacenters in SPACE so we can Make Better CHILD PORN with GROK!
Space is the worst place for high powered servers because of all the heat involved along with the inability to perform maintenance. It's just a grift, it will not be profitable to put HPC GPUs in orbit.
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hopefully his shitty AI will tank his nazi rockets. one can only hope.
It kind of sucks because the people working at spaceX are actually doing great things as a whole.
Just sucks a person like muskrat is the face of it.
They should work for NASA instead.
NASA has contracted out basically all their rockets. We need spacex. Elon needs to be in jail. If only for threatening national security with this dumb move. Never mind being a Nazi and election interference.
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The people at SpaceX are poisoning landscapes that used to be neighborhoods with toxic waste because the company doesn‘t give a shit about the environment, people or the planet. Fuck whoever works at SpaceX and partakes in this. Oh, they‘re also making Musk even more powerful so that‘s a double L.
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Agreed. I just got banned from techtakes for pointing this out but the Falcon 9 rocket is the most reliable launch vehicle today.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_orbital_launch_systems
So he decided to ruin his one successful company. Which is successful because he wasn't involved in running it until now.
What advantage does space provide at all?
You have to transport heavy great into a place with no cooling capacity... What?
No advantage, in fact a massive disadvantage.
Fascists lie.
mainly no red tape trying to connect to a power grid, plus "free" solar power.
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Nationalize it. Take his company, his wealth and jail him for his crimes.
Datacenters on the bottom of the sea are useless because of the difficulties of hardware maintenance and the snake oil salesman is trying to sell out space datacenters now.
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"Now they have to bail me out."
A million satellites he says. That's 100 satellites per starship launch. 5 times per day, every day, for five years. By the time you're done, the first ones are burned out and you have to do it all again. And that's assuming one GPU per satellite because solar panels even in space can't pull enough power to feed multiple of those hungry things.
Energy is the least of their concerns, getting rid of the heat is a much bigger problem.
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How little of an understanding of how the natural world works do you need to have to think that data centers in space are a good idea? Nothing to say of economics and logistics. Or am I missing something big here?
Well there will be them there amazing Optimus robots on board to do all that maintenance, obviously. Don't worry, the great K has thought of all the angles, genius that he is and all.
Wow, that was harder to write than I thought it would be
It would require Von Neumann machines to do it. Of, course, we could end up being turned into grey goo with that sort of tech.
But, yeah, simply invent self-replicating nanotech. Shoot it at the moon, Mars, Ceres. Viola, data centers in space. Use the same tech to clean up the enviroment and eliminate oil dependence. Might as well rebuld the coral reefs and old growth forests. Also cures cancer and the common cold. And is the fountain of youth. And we all live happily ever after in the computer.
Doesn't one of those companies rely on government contracts? And now that company generates CSAM on demand?
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Now if he rolls these into Tesla he’ll be on his way to ticking off one of the requirements to unlock his completely legitimate cagillion dollar pay package.
Cacadillo?! Is that like an armadillo, but poopie???
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Or...he just tanked the value of both.
Time to break it up because it‘s a monopoly that spans over several industries for no good reason at all but oh wait the USA is a dysfunctional mess so nothing will be done about it.