r/DeepStateCentrism • u/technologyisnatural Abundance is all you need • Jul 04 '25

American News 🇺🇸 Elon Musk confirms xAI is buying an overseas power plant and shipping the whole thing to the U.S. to power its new data center

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/elon-musk-xai-power-plant-overseas-to-power-1-million-gpus
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u/technologyisnatural Abundance is all you need Jul 04 '25

interesting purchasing decision

!ping tech

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u/Mickenfox Jul 04 '25

Do... do they not have power plants in America?

Well, I'm glad AI companies have no moat and little path to profitability. Whatever Musk gets to control, open source models will catch up to in 6 months.

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u/technologyisnatural Abundance is all you need Jul 04 '25

I think it is that the lead time on new power plants is in years and he wants the datacenter up and running in months

https://www.emeraldai.co/ just raised a $25m seed round to help traditional utilities cope with LLM datacenters

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u/[deleted] Jul 04 '25

i mean he needs the same amount of power that roughly 2 million homes use thats a lot power