I mean they are completely unrelated things serving different purposes. I get that this is a US centric forum so most people commenting are in the great divide between two political parties, but geez.

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monsieurbanana 5 days ago | parent | next [-]

> they are completely unrelated

I'm not going to engage into that... I don't see what the US has to do with this, I'm from Europe.

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sebastiennight 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Out of the 4 things he's listed, are you sure you want to claim that 1. Twitter, 2. X, and 3. xAI/Grok are "completely unrelated things"?

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imglorp 5 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Grok is doing some terrible things to the environment and to the community surrounding its data center, especially the disadvantaged in the area. Nobody, anywhere should be okay with that. https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/06/elon-musk-xai-memph...

This poor behavior, if rewarded, will surely be repeated in other countries and nobody wants that, either.

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ACCount37 5 days ago | parent [-]

That sounds like FUD.

The location of the Colossus datacenter is well known. It happens to be located in an industrial area, nestled between an active steel manufacturing plant (apparently scrap metal with an electric blast furnace, which should mean enormous power draw but no coke coal at least?), and an active industrial scale natural gas power plant.

https://www.google.com/maps/@35.0605698,-90.1562034,933m

With that, I just don't buy that it's the datacenter that is somehow the most notable consumer of fossil fuel power (or, for that matter, water) in the area.

	▲	imglorp 5 days ago \| parent [-]
		Did you read the politico link?

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jameshart 5 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Elon Musk chose to make his identity nakedly partisan in a context where doing so is deeply alienating to a lot of people. That is going to have brand consequences.

Out of all his brands, though, X and particularly XAI (and so Grok) have been particularly influenced by – indeed he seems to see them as vehicles for – his personal political opinions and reckless ethics.