[Doc Brown] Great Scott! That is just enough energy for 83 time traveling jumps!!
Which would require lifting an enormous amount of material into LEO just to do the cooling. To say nothing of the cost of solar panels capable of operating in space, which is just ever so slightly more expensive to manufacture than solar panels used on earth. And by slightly, I mean enormously.
The linked video does a good breakdown of just how absurdly expensive and impossible it would be to even generate a small fraction of 100 GW in space (which again, is what Elmo says he plans to put into orbit yearly) by breaking down a proposal by Starcloud, a company that wrote up a whitepaper proposing a much smaller solar powered AI datacenter in space. For example, they claim the material costs of the solar cells would be $0.03 per watt. Which is the cost of solar panels here on earth, not the cost of the panels powering, for example, the ISS. Those cost approximately €300 per watt to manufacture because they have to deal with tiny things like lack of gravity, drastic temperature changes and radiation without failing.
Imagine the cost of repairs and maintenance too.
It’s just whatever drug he’s micro dosing on this week doing the talking. The cumulative effects are eroding any sense he’s making.
And his robots will do all the maintenance and repairs while standing on each other’s shoulders like a giant space elevator.
He will make the chips for those data centers while eating cheeseburgers and smoking cigars.
Imagine they need a server rebooted or a hard drive swapped, and you get the ticket. Time to suit up for launch I guess.
Maybe that’s the next Jerry Bruckheimer film?
I would like that job, they send you to space and they pay you.
Too bad it will never be economically viable.
They would maybe build enough redundancy into the data centers that repairs could wait until there was a lot of catch-up maintenance to be done; then send up a mission that took several days to service all the centers in the same orbital plane.
Redundancy means extra cost and reduced profits. Especially sufficient redundancy to guarantee a minimum level of performance. Might as well just build them on the ground at that point
Grok is now making softcore porn of Renee Good’s corpse.
From that article:
Even Ashley St. Clair, the conservative content creator who has a child with Musk, is trying to get Grok to stop creating nonconsensual sexual images of her—including some she said are altering photos of her as a minor.
I don’t even know what to say to this.
“Welcome to the future”?
We’re all, as in all of society, along for the ride as a few tycoons and dictators remake Western Civilization to their satisfaction and our detriment.
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/01/08/tech/elon-musk-xai-digital-undressing
This wasn’t some accidental booboo, Musk specifically wanted Grok to behave this way and has removed anyone in the company who opposes him on this.
Musk censored X during the last Turkish election, despite a previous decision by the Turkish Constitutional Court that affirmed that Twitter (X) had the freedom of speech and couldn’t be compelled to restrict political information shared on the platform.
He’s also cherry-picked and hidden information about his businesses and himself quite heavily.
In general, I’d say that he appreciates the anti-censorship movement, but when the rubber hits the road, differentiating the platform is probably the larger motivation than trying to ensure that we all live in a society with no rules or limits.
Elon is the kind of narcissistic idiot to whom “Free speech” means “It’s illegal for you to criticize me”.
That article has more of the type of utterly idiotic writing that was pointed out by Cervaise:
Grok confirmed that the chatbot had undressed the recently killed woman, writing in one, “I generated an AI image altering a photo of Renee Good, killed in the January 7, 2026, Minneapolis ICE shooting, by placing her in a bikini per a user request. This used sensitive content unintentionally.”
This shows that the article writer has a complete and total lack of understanding what an LLM is or how it works.
As I said a few days ago;
On top of what you said, one instance of Grok has no idea what has been done by another instance of Grok. That’s like thinking the copy of MS Word on your computer knows what was written in MS Word on my computer.
Or to extend the analogy from my earlier post, it’s like asking one calculator what it thinks about a different calculator displaying 80085.