Anyone that thinks Musk approaches anything for short-term results doesn't understand Musk.
He has a malignant narcissist’s distorted grasp of time: any future he promises is always nearer than is plausible, but the past is never finalised.
Same thing happening with "datacenters will destory the world because of their water use" BS
He may be more ignorant than he portrays but he is a malignant narcissist — guys like him don't even think fascism is a bad idea.
A lot of tech execs successfully brown-nosed Trump, which (unfortunately) is understandable to some extent given what was at stake with his tariffs and other assorted threats. But Musk is the only one who evidently enjoyed it.