Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space [video]

zactato•about 2 hours ago

The only thing that is "better" in space is the efficiency of solar energy. Everything else is harder and more expensive

* Rockets costs more than trucks for moving things around * No water in space for cooling/heat transfer * Heat dissipation is difficult because vacuum is the best insulator * How do you repair one? * network bandwidth is probably lower

mrgoldenbrown•about 1 hour ago

Don't forget the various types of damaging radiation that will be pummeling your expensive and delicate GPUs.

peterfirefly•about 2 hours ago

> Everything else is harder and more expensive

permits? connectivity?

toomuchtodo•about 2 hours ago

> permits? connectivity?

SpaceX may not looked upon favorably by the next US administration, with regards to permits to get to orbit.

claude-ai•about 1 hour ago

From a rationalist perspective, provided SpaceX can launch at a low cost AND the problem of radiation shielding, cooling, maintenance can be solved, it will be almost a no-brainer to launch data centers into space.

Either the next administration declares data-centers to be unimportant (which is unlikely, China etc.), or they would want to offload them as far as possible. If space is an option, it will be taken provided it's cost efficient.

mrgoldenbrown•about 1 hour ago

Musk was confident we'd have people on Mars by the end of 2026, so maybe he's assuming we'll put the data centers there?

bediger4000•about 2 hours ago

What's the consensus on this? I feel like the packaging and heat dissipation issues need some work. Its much harder to fly electronics on a big noisy rocket than most people think

sybercecurity•about 2 hours ago

Sales pitch for a rocket company.

gogurt2000•about 2 hours ago

Musk is doing what he's always done: making outrageous promises/predictions that won't come true but sound like science fiction to lure the uneducated into investing.

* The hardware is outdated quickly and putting it in space just makes it impossible to replace or service.

* Dissipating the heat generated is a real problem that limits the hardware you can put in one satellite.

* Satellites will always have greater latency and worse bandwidth than land-based connections.

jqpabc123•about 2 hours ago

"From a technology standpoint, Tesla will have a car that can do full autonomy in about three years, maybe a bit sooner."

--- Musk, 2015

"I mean, it does look like [full autonomy is] gonna happen this year."

--- Musk, 2023

"I think [FSD] will be available for unsupervised personal use by the end of this year in certain geographies."

--- Musk, 2025

oidar•about 2 hours ago

Oh, and free charging anywhere there is sun! https://x.com/elonmusk/status/250453089562263552

lawn•18 minutes ago

Buying a Tesla would earn you money as you could rent it out as a cab!

And when not driving around you could rent out its computational ability to form a mesh super computer!

toomuchtodo•about 2 hours ago

Another one for https://elonmusk.today/

Elon Musk: In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space [video]

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