By fusing SpaceX and xAI—which acquired X last year—Elon Musk tightens his grip over technologies that shape national security, social media, and artificial intelligence.

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.

  • bagsy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    282·
    2 months ago

    hopefully his shitty AI will tank his nazi rockets. one can only hope.

    • NarrativeBear@lemmy.worldEnglish
      354·
      2 months ago

      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.

        • MrSpArkle@lemmy.caEnglish
          142·
          2 months ago

          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.

      • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
        101·
        2 months ago

        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.

        • lividweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
          2·
          2 months ago

          I’m gonna need a source for that. I follow SpaceX fairly closely (as a fan of the engineering, not Musk), and I can’t think of where this could possibly be happening, even through a wild misunderstanding of a situation.

            • lividweasel@lemmy.worldEnglish
              1·
              2 months ago

              Oh, that. If you read the article, you’ll see that the “toxic waste” was really just used water from the deluge system. Think of it like rinsing off your car and the runoff getting into a river. A good chunk of the water was collected too, so the actual discharge was much less. On top of that, it was later clarified that SpaceX could continue the operations while the permit process was sorted out, which happened a few months after that article IIRC. It was basically a nothingburger that a few commentators tried to blow up.

              • The_Decryptor@aussie.zoneEnglish
                1·
                2 months ago

                SpaceX wrote in its July permit application — under the header Specific Testing Requirements — Table 2 for Outfall: 001 — that its mercury concentration at one outfall location was 113 micrograms per liter. Water quality criteria in the state calls for levels no higher than 2.1 micrograms per liter for acute aquatic toxicity and much lower levels for human health

                Cool, you can drink the mercury water, but I’ll pass thanks.