3 months ago
After spending nearly $16 billion on artificial intelligence infrastructure in the second quarter, Elon Musk used ****** eX's first earnings call as a public company on Tuesday to explain why he believes ****** eX is uniquely positioned to dominate the AI compute race: rocket scientists.
Defending the company's aggressive investment in AI, Musk argued that the engineering expertise required to design reusable rockets and satellites translates directly to building AI data centers, comparing the company's advantage in the market to "the New York Yankees going in and playing a Little League team."
Data centers are a "trivial problem" compared to what ****** eX's rocket engineers work on every day, Musk said.
"We're taking a small amount of the expertise that we use for rockets and satellites, and applying that to scaling terrestrial data centers," he said, arguing that even a fraction of ****** eX's aerospace engineering experience produces "an amazing outcome" when applied to AI infrastructure.
Musk made the boast without naming any of his "little league" rivals. ****** eX is a relative newcomer to the data center business, an industry long dominated by the giant cloud services providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet-owned Google. All three of those business reported record growth in their cloud divisions for their most recent earnings reports. A growing crop of "neocloud" startups are also racing to build the data centers and computing capacity needed to power artificial intelligence.
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Defending the company's aggressive investment in AI, Musk argued that the engineering expertise required to design reusable rockets and satellites translates directly to building AI data centers, comparing the company's advantage in the market to "the New York Yankees going in and playing a Little League team."
Data centers are a "trivial problem" compared to what ****** eX's rocket engineers work on every day, Musk said.
"We're taking a small amount of the expertise that we use for rockets and satellites, and applying that to scaling terrestrial data centers," he said, arguing that even a fraction of ****** eX's aerospace engineering experience produces "an amazing outcome" when applied to AI infrastructure.
Musk made the boast without naming any of his "little league" rivals. ****** eX is a relative newcomer to the data center business, an industry long dominated by the giant cloud services providers such as Amazon, Microsoft, and Alphabet-owned Google. All three of those business reported record growth in their cloud divisions for their most recent earnings reports. A growing crop of "neocloud" startups are also racing to build the data centers and computing capacity needed to power artificial intelligence.
#SpaceX #artificial #infrastructure
3 months ago
WASHINGTON (AP) — Jimmy Carter used to be one of President Donald Trump 's favorite political targets, a catchall foil for ****** less Democrats that he could jeer at to make himself look strong and decisive.
But lately, Trump's sentiments on the 39th president have become more wistful as he faces some of the same challenges the late Carter did.
Those include the war in Iran with no end in sight — and now escalating as the U.S. moves to control the Strait of Hormuz — and inflation, a drag on the economy Trump hasn't tamed despite long insisting that his business background would wipe it out.
The comparison seems to be on Trump's mind, too. Asked last month why he didn't dispatch U.S. Special Forces into Iran to forcibly remove its enriched uranium, he responded, "I didn't feel like being Jimmy Carter."
That recalled the failed 1980 raid to free U.S. hostages that killed eight American servicemen. Trump also said in March that the unsuccessful mission "cost them the election" against Ronald Reagan in 1980, sounding cognizant of political realities in a way he didn't when using Carter as a punchline.
But lately, Trump's sentiments on the 39th president have become more wistful as he faces some of the same challenges the late Carter did.
Those include the war in Iran with no end in sight — and now escalating as the U.S. moves to control the Strait of Hormuz — and inflation, a drag on the economy Trump hasn't tamed despite long insisting that his business background would wipe it out.
The comparison seems to be on Trump's mind, too. Asked last month why he didn't dispatch U.S. Special Forces into Iran to forcibly remove its enriched uranium, he responded, "I didn't feel like being Jimmy Carter."
That recalled the failed 1980 raid to free U.S. hostages that killed eight American servicemen. Trump also said in March that the unsuccessful mission "cost them the election" against Ronald Reagan in 1980, sounding cognizant of political realities in a way he didn't when using Carter as a punchline.
