Elon Musk has given up on solar power (on Earth)
TechCrunch
Elon Musk’s recent corporate strategies show a shift toward fossil fuels for AI operations while prioritizing speculative space-based solar power over terrestrial solutions.Summary
Elon Musk’s companies, particularly xAI, are increasingly relying on natural gas to power AI data centers, seemingly contradicting the goal of a solar-electric economy outlined in Tesla’s Master Plans. While Musk promotes the vision of space-based solar power, experts note significant economic and technical hurdles, including the extreme costs of orbital operations. Critics argue that this pivot to space-based energy may be an idealistic distraction from the practical, scalable potential of terrestrial solar power that remains largely underutilized on Earth.
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