CEO Lip-Bu Tan opens up about SpaceX, Tesla, xAI partnership.

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    2 days ago

    That’s how you get stupid ideas like making chips in space. An idea that was so thoroughly debunked it’s ridiculous, already the same day Musk came out with it.

    If this is anything other than an attempt to get money from Musk they truly must be out of options.

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      What the… But heat! Lasers make heat, space is insulating!

      Who… why?..

      What a life to be literate.

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            If moronic ideas makes you executive material, may I suggest the south pole? Imagine the cooling efficiency!
            All we need is some power plants and other minor infrastructure.
            I should be CEO of some company. 🤣🤣🤣

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          I would say equally stupid. Data centers essentially have two inputs and two outputs (obviously a lot more in real life), data/electricity and data/heat, respectively. All of those are easier on the ground, but removing heat makes it an absolute deal breaker in space. You simply can’t radiate that much heat in space. You would need unrealistically large surface area exposed to the vacuum of space.

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          Musk is an idiot, but I’m sure he was salivating over all the potential launch fees SpaceX would rake in if some doo-doo brain decided to actually haul a chip foundry into orbit.