Elon is smart and employs many smart people. If the thermodynamics didn't work, they would know.
I do wonder if shielding the multi-billion transistor GPUs will be a difficult.
I do wonder if shielding the multi-billion transistor GPUs will be a difficult.
It has not been tried commercially yet, so has not failed there, but that is not relevant to my point.
Elon Musk on the other hand has a construct of multiply billion dollar companies he has to feed and keep alive:
xAI investment burns one Billion per month. Space X makes 8 Billion per year. X cost him 40 Billion when he bought it but is not profitable. Tesla struggles to grow, had the very costly Cybertruck, and has a lot more opposition than 10 years ago.
I do not understand at all what his endgame is. His finances are hidden enough. But his motivation is for sure selling his story.
his story is the future and it doesn't matter very much if its doable or not or usefull. Tesla as a company is still overevaluated for years now. If Tesla would drop to what its worth, Musk might need to pay back a lot of loans and other stuff and he might just be gone. He said often enough in public that it was very close etc.
If Space-X and Tesla wouljd just be good running companies with profits in the billions, he wouldn't need to be that weird but it could just be that he believes in it here are plenty of interviews showing him not knowing that much about his technology.
He is not the expert, he is the pusher and unblocker
The thing is, this is a massive expansion of AI investment. And AI has been the thing where Musk has failed consistently the most. Nothing he has done around AI indicates he has some special genius or insight.
The thing he had success with were things that were known to be good ideas, reusable rockets, electric cars and space based LEO communications. What he did is he brought together the finances and build a and lead a team to execute on them.
However, we are far away from that with xAI and Space data-centers.
in the long term, elon has a very good track record for attempting to follow through with his stated intentions. sometimes things change, or he changes his mind, which is his right as much as it is anyone's. that doesn't mean "false claim".
"The thing he had success with were things that were known to be good ideas, reusable rockets, electric cars and space based LEO communications."
This is so outrageously not what history reflects. Elon started an electric car company when the entire industry very strongly believed both, individually (car and electric cars), are absolutely stupid, terrible ideas. And Elon did both at the same time anyway.
If you asked Hacker News 15 years ago if starting a rocket company was a "good idea" and a "good way to make a trillion dollars", you'd be hazed ruthlessly. Everyone in the establishment aerospace community said it was impossible or absolutely divorced from reality.
Elon, more than anyone alive, has been way ahead of the curve on good ideas when everyone else thinks they're idiotic. online payment processing, electric cars, reusable rockets
But Musk was the one who had the skills, guts, personality - and sometimes luck - to bring these things to reality.
His existence has greatly benefited mankind and that remains true even if you hate the man.
He is The George Michael, while the rest of us are Andrew Ridgeleys.
Go start yet another "Elon is an idiot because I hate his politics" thread.
But guess if you use some sort of fluid in them, you could use a reservoir of it for shielding something.