SpaceX, the rocket company owned by Elon Musk, has asked the Federal Communications Commission — the US agency that hands out radio licenses — for permission to put one million satellites in orbit. The purpose is a space-based data centre, because his chatbot gets warm.
A Falcon 9 launch emits roughly 336 tonnes of CO₂. A Falcon 9 carries about 60 Starlinks. One million satellites is 16,667 launches. That is 5.6 million tonnes of CO₂ so a language model can autocomplete tweets at a lower temperature. I did the arithmetic. I checked it twice.
Elon, meanwhile, heats his Austin compound to 74°F in winter and calls that thermally efficient. It is not. It is a man in a cardigan losing an argument with a thermostat.
The chatbot is not overheating. He is.
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