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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    12 hours ago

    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.

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      8 hours ago

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

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          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.