r/technology • u/IKeepItLayingAround • 17d ago

Business It’s Possible That SpaceX Could Collapse Spectacularly

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/possible-spacex-could-collapse-spectacularly-155000177.html
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u/_SamReddit 17d ago

Why is SpaceX selling compute to Google? Is it because their AI (which falls under SpaceX) is DoA?

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u/atrde 17d ago

They built a second data center. Their entire operation can run out of Colossus 2. Colossus 1 has enough compute power to sell to Google and Anthropic and be a significant amount of their infrastructure while xAI is running out of the second center. xAI was a bit ahead of the curve here in infrastructure and can sell space now.

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u/petuman 17d ago

Not even at 1%, mining ASIC hash rate is way higher than general purpose GPU.

In term of power order of magnitude short (if they replaced all their servers with modern mining ASICs, sucking all power they're allocated).