Tesla Car Computers Could Be Monetized in Other Ways

Let's say some world crisis and most of our chip manufacturing capacity is bombed/destroyed or unavailable in some other way, while our computing needs are rising exponentially due to some AI-warfare (economic or military).

In this case, every device with compute will become valuable, because compute is extremely scarce and datacenters won't be able to service this.

So you'll be able to sell compute from your phone (when hooked to a charger mostly), your laptop, your desktops, iPads, and your cars.

But there's nothing special about the cars themselves. And in a relatively normal world, what he proposes is a non-starter.

Even my scenario is a bit of a sci-fi thing. It's really inefficient to distribute compute. And while folding@home and seti@home ship independent small units of data for analysis, AI inference tends to be very high-volume data and needing high-interconnect between inference units. Meaning it'll be extra hard to distribute in a meaningful way compared to these well-known processing donation projects.