Nothing about this idea makes any sense at all. Classic Musk moment.
This is basically the same thing as websites running crypto miners in the background, just for cars.
I wonder how he comes up with this stuff.
This is basically the same thing as websites running crypto miners in the background, just for cars.
I wonder how he comes up with this stuff.
That's all of it, and as long as you trust he's worked out the details, the trick works.
If you sit down and start thinking about it though, you quickly realize it's utter nonsense.
In this case, the cost per operation will be much higher than if you do it at a datacenter for a long list of reasons I'm too bored to repeat (but if someone wants to know, ask me).
So talking breathlessly about how much compute sits idle and unused in all the Tesla cars is like this joke:
"Sure, we lose money on every T-shirt we sell, but we'll make it up in volume"