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

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 co…

Source Electrek Updated May 25, 2026 AI Summary

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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. more…

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