@elonmusk: Maybe more than 10GW
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Elon Musk replied that SpaceX may need more than 10GW of AI compute by the end of 2027, as Nvidia now counts SpaceX among its cloud-scale customers and both companies' engineers are reportedly designing a server for space.
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Maybe more than 10GW
bg2clips (@bg2clips): 🛰️ @elonmusk wants 10 gigawatts of compute by the end of 2027. @JensenHuang says Nvidia now counts @SpaceX alongside its cloud provider customers, and the two companies’ engineers are designing a server for space:
“In the two parts of our chart, Elon used to be under enterprise.
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