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> going to space for solar energy (for data centers)

There are other incentives driving this, I suspect more so. Pushback, land acquisition, grid hookup, legal concerns - many circumvented by going to space.

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Data centers in space are simply bullshit. I think we should all stop accepting that it is mentioned like something that has to happen only because Elon says so.

there are already Google TPUs in space

okay but as part of a data center ? accessible commercially?

are you expecting racks in space to have the same agglomerated big box shape as racks on earth?

are you expecting us to not do have more compute in space every year?

the pace of space access is accelerating while the cost is decreasing

We also have a lot of stuff on the Moon. So we've already proven that building a mirror image of NYC on the Moon is a great way to solve the housing problem in NYC.

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