# Now that Elon Musk has bought Twitter - now the Pit edition (Part 2)

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**Created:** [August 13, 2024, 12:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634 "2024-08-13T00:48:45Z")\
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**Post date:** [July 17, 2026, 12:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/now-that-elon-musk-has-bought-twitter-now-the-pit-edition-part-2/1005634/3424 "2026-07-17T00:21:22Z")

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Just on the off chance some of you missed itt, there’s the parallel conversation going on in FQ with some of the same participants on the Space Data Center Issue:

> [@AI data centres (datacenters) in space!](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/ai-data-centres-datacenters-in-space/1031098):
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> So commercial artificial intelligence operations (OpenAI, Anthropic and so on) require some high-performance processors with high power and cooling requirements. Now there is a trend of talking about putting such data centres in space. SpaceX and some others are betting the farm (and probably your funds) on this. A few months ago, I was seeing articles like [this one](https://taranis.ie/datacenters-in-space-are-a-terrible-horrible-no-good-idea/), saying the cooling would be a limiting factor because there’s no convection up there. Plus: solar power is still not as abundant…

Again, only on the chance people aren’t aware while we’re having one of our common breakouts of enlightened speculation in the Pit. 😉

But while we’re here - most of the speculation is da fuq - given the AI boom, almost all the components spoken for, scheduled out over the next year+, and that’s just the standard, commercial stuff with no hardening for space applications. So as for Elon’s claims, 99.99999% bullshit, because he may well have options on the basics, but no one is building space ready AI components on the _scale_ he’s talking about right now. The leadup time alone isn’t something that’s going to be fixed by throwing even his level of assets around.

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