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Musk abandoned his own ‘solar electric economy’ to burn gas for an AI chatbot no one uses - Electrek

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Elon Musk spent years telling the world that solar power was the obvious answer to Earth’s energy needs — that a small patch of desert could power the entire United States. Now, he’s burning millions of tons of fossil fuels to run an AI chatbot that has lost 60% of its downloads, selling the unused compute to a company he called “misanthropic and evil” three months ago, and pitching space-based solar panels right as SpaceX files for a $2 trillion IPO. The contradictions are stacking up faster than xAI’s unpermitted gas turbines. In July 2017, Musk stood before the National Governors Association and made the case for solar with the kind of clarity that made him an icon of the clean energy movement. “If you wanted to power the entire US with solar panels, it would take a fairly small corner of Nevada or Texas or Utah; you only need about 100 miles by 100 miles of solar panels to power the entire United States,” he said. He added that the battery storage needed for 24/7 power was “1 mile by 1 mile. One square-mile. That’s it.” He called the sun “a giant fusion reactor in the sky” that is “really reliable.”
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