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iknowstuff 13 hours ago

Remember how he argued for Tesla’s Solarcity acquisition because solar roofs?

Data centers in space are the same kind of justification imo.

MobiusHorizons 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Solar roofs are much more practical to be honest.

undersuit 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Putting solar roofs on a building? For a car company?

kuschku 5 hours ago | parent | next [-]

There's a synergy effect here - Tesla sells you a solar roof and car bundle, the roof comes without a battery (making it cheaper) and the car now gets a free recharge whenever you're home (making it cheaper in the long term).

Of course that didn't work out with this specific acquisition, but overall it's at least a somewhat reasonable idea.

rsynnott 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It's obviously a pretty weird thing for a car company to do, and is probably just a silly idea in general (it has little obvious benefit over normal solar panels, and is vastly more expensive and messy to install), but in principle it could at least work, FSOV work. The space datacenter thing is a nonsensical fantasy.

MobiusHorizons 9 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

In comparison to datacenters in space yes. Solar roofs are already a profitable business, just not likely to be high growth. Datacenters in space are unlikely to ever make financial sense, and even if they did, they are very unlikely to show high growth due to continuing ongoing high capital expenses inherent in the model.

mayoff 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

For an electrification company.

darig 12 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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