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SpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year

techcrunch.com/2026/07/31/spacex-wont-remove-all-of-xais-unpermitted-turbines-for-another-year/
TechCrunchSpaceX won’t remove all of xAI’s unpermitted turbines for another year | TechCrunchSpaceX is building a new power plant for xAI's Colossus data centers, but it won't remove existing, unpermitted turbines for many more months.

Replying to @⁨BillyClark@piefed.social⁩

it’s still harder to live in space or on Mars than to try to fix Earth

Hush, unbeliever. We just gotta invest more in the technologies that let us escape from the consequences of our greed. Well, some of us. The most greedy, actually. The rest still get to bear the consequences, but they don’t matter.

Point is: pour more money into training machines to imitate all the things we don’t actually understand the complexity of, and surely we’ll no longer need those people when we finally escape to a better future where our serfs don’t need such petty things as rights and payment. And if you help us get that, you just might get a ride on our escape too!

(You won’t, but I’m hoping you’re gullible enough to fall for it.)

It is run by a complete idiot.

And enabled by other idiots. Musk doesn’t exist in a vacuum.

Replying to @⁨luciferofastora@feddit.org⁩

Point is: pour more money into training machines to imitate all the things we don’t actually understand the complexity of, and surely we’ll no longer need those people when we finally escape to a better future where our serfs don’t need such petty things as rights and payment. And if you help us get that, you just might get a ride on our escape too!

All I’m hearing is “let’s build the OceanSpaceGate station and fill it with all the billionaires” and I’m struggling to see a downside.

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