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Lauren Weinstein
Lauren Weinstein
@lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org  ·  activity timestamp 5 hours ago

I'll say it right now and get ahead of the game. This " #AI data centers in a million satellites" concept is bullsh*t. In fact, all the hype (and #Google is buying into this nonsense too) is more billionaire wet dream fantasizing that will end up costing us all dearly.

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@lauren The OBVIOUS reason for it is that Musk wants SpaceX to IPO this year, and needs a strong growth narrative to hook investors—Falcon 9/Starlink is already baked in, so why would anyone throw more money at SpaceX *now*?

It's clearly bullshit, but the investors he's after are spectacularly gullible and tech-illiterate.

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Brian Tatosky
Brian Tatosky
@virtualbri@mastodon.online replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@cstross @lauren If they weren't all rubes Tesla wouldn't have the stock value it *currently* has

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RalfMaximus
RalfMaximus
@ralfmaximus@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@cstross @lauren

So is this a pump-and-dump scheme or are they actually going to go thru with launching a bazillion flawed orbital 'data centers'?

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Charlie Stross
Charlie Stross
@cstross@wandering.shop replied  ·  activity timestamp 4 hours ago

@ralfmaximus @lauren The bubble's going to burst long before anything more than at most a single prototype orbital DC ever gets built, much less launched. The point is to IPO SpaceX with a high valuation on the back of the AI bubble before it all turns to shit.

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