News Elon Musk powers new 'World's Fastest AI Data Center" with gargantuan portable power generators to sidestep electricity supply constraints

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The way I see it is that Elon Musk violated occupational safety regulations. He doesn't have a helmet! see picture
have a nice day everyone 😊
 
I'm expecting TN to sign a deal with solar city to pave the state in solar cells. Elon still owns solar city right? Don't hear much about them lately.
 
Generators on wheels aren't meant to be 100% duty cycle permanent solutions. This is a stop-gap solution until they can get proper service. I don't know much/anything about these generators, but I highly doubt the EPA and other code standards will allow this to be anything more than temporary.

People romanticizing Elon for buying some big generators....c'mon.
 
jp7189 said:
I'm expecting TN to sign a deal with solar city to pave the state in solar cells. Elon still owns solar city right? Don't hear much about them lately.
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Solar City went bankrupt and Musk used Tesla as a personal piggybank to buy it out at full price. Thus turning his worthless Solar City shares into more Tesla Shares. This happened years ago and was proof positive that the Tesla "board" was just a rubber stamp committee.
 
Remarkable. I'm surprised that 14 one-megawatt-scale gas generators on wheels even exist in the USA! I'd like to hear more about them and this swarm of them. What are the odds that half of them were built on Elon's dime and just for this project? Or all of them!
 
musk makes so many bad business choices..buyign twitter for a stupid amount many tiems its worth and losing $ on it daily, spending so much on ai that has no profitable future for him, etc....money doesnt make you smart.

and again I realllly wish the agency made strict requirements to approve pwoer usage of this scale for ai by requiring a downpayment/investment (which if isnt fulfilled has a hefty fee) to imrpove the overall grid of an area over a few yrs. Those who use the most should be forced to improve the grids so they dont strain the current grids.
 
Most of the rich and powerful got there by manipulating regulations and laws. Elon has done it more than most and so much more flagrantly. This is an incredibly environmentally unfriendly answer to the situation. Why not build a giant solar and wind farm and use your own batteries as storage....or any number of other solutions.

Nope screw that, I want my toys and I want them now, generators for AI. It's just a disgusting abuse of money and power. I hope he gets shutdown at this point.
 
tennis2 said:
I highly doubt the EPA and other code standards will allow this to be anything more than temporary.
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There are indeed natural-gas generators EPA certified for continuous/primary (versus emergency backup) use. Caterpillar for one.

Now it's one thing if you're an outpost inside the Arctic Circle and this kind of generator IS your electric service. But to bolster your AI supercluster with a bank of these just because? Probably should be raising some eyebrows at the EPA.
 
Help me understand. Global leader in electric cars (the "solution" to gasoline car emissions I have been told) needs 14x 2.5-MWe "Natural Gas" generators to build Grok 2.0. I mean, we all see the irony right?
 
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