Data centers have no benefits?
Wrong.
✅Lower property taxes.
✅Funding for schools and firefighters.
✅More customers for local small businesses.
✅High-paying jobs for blue collar workers.
✅Electric grid upgrades.
✅Expanding American manufacturing.
We've lost our damn minds.
The Lindsay Clancy mass psychosis proves that a lot of people need to have their Wifi taken away. But this psychosis started many years before TikTok...
And that’s why we need to communicate this correctly to the American people:
• Data centers have been around for decades and are a critical part of our modern economy.
• Data centers help us compete with and defeat China. Without them, China wins.
• Data centers can help fund their own infrastructure and, in many cases, can improve water and electricity infrastructure in underserved or underinvested areas.
• Dats centers create jobs and investment and can help revitalize cities and towns by bringing new economic activity and infrastructure.
• Data centers are environmentally safe for the towns they reside in.
The anti-datacenter psychosis sweeping through both sides of our national politics might be the worst mass movement I've seen in my lifetime. The magnitude of lies underpinning it, the threat it poses to our economy and civilization, and the sheer scale of its popularity are totally unprecedented. It should be an enduring national shame that the country that invented the airplane, landed on the Moon, and created the Internet is descending into superstitious panic at the very moment growth matters most
Every state that bans data centers will be a state that will be economically depressed for the next 20 years.
Every state that builds data centers will have an economic boom for the next 20 years.
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I’ve been seeing a ton of people begging Tesla and Elon to finally make a real full-size SUV the last couple of day
And today even the Governor of Florida posted asking Elon and Tesla to make it happen 🙏
The demand is loud. Families want it. Let’s go @elonmusk@Tesla
Elon Musk sent every Tesla employee a memo that took authority away from their managers and handed it to them.
He never asks for more hours. Every rule moves a decision closer to the person doing the work.
Musk: “Excessive meetings are the blight of big companies and almost always get worse over time.”
Companies have a role for everyone who creates process and no role for anyone who removes it. Meetings and approval chains survive because removing them was never anyone’s job.
Musk: “Walk out of a meeting or drop off a call as soon as it is obvious you aren’t adding value.”
Attendance has always been treated as proof of commitment. He made it worthless, and contribution became the only thing that counts in the room.
Musk: “It is not rude to leave, it is rude to make someone stay and waste their time.”
Ordinary manners protect whoever called the meeting. He moved that protection to everyone else sitting quietly with real work waiting on them.
Musk: “Don’t use acronyms or nonsense words for objects, software, or processes at Tesla. Anything that requires an explanation inhibits communication.”
Internal vocabulary converts knowledge into status and charges every newcomer a fee to participate.
A company that speaks plainly can absorb talent at full speed.
Musk: “Communication should travel via the shortest path necessary to get the job done, not through the chain of command.”
Most good ideas die in transit, three levels below anyone with the power to act on them.
Musk: “Any manager who attempts to enforce chain of command communication will soon find themselves working elsewhere.”
The only threat in the entire memo. A manager who insists on being routed through is buying his own relevance with everyone else’s time. Musk put a price on it.
Musk: “Always pick common sense as your guide. If following a company rule is obviously ridiculous in a particular situation, the rule should change.”
Following a bad rule normally shields you. Exercising judgment exposes you.
He flipped which one carries the risk, and every rule now has to earn its place against the person applying it.
Every institution drifts toward protecting its own comfort. The ones that keep building are held together by people who rewrite the rules back down to something a single person can act on.
Nothing on that list requires a budget, a headcount, or a title.
You can run the entire memo from wherever you are sitting right now. Most people never test it and never learn it was permitted the whole time.
FSD 14.3.7 has me feeling like a passenger princess 😂
I’m just sitting back, enjoying the ride and letting Tesla handle the driving.
I need to get more sun lol
Who else is loving this update?
I find that people are often too quick to conclude that robotaxis aren’t ready to scale based on one or a handful of videos. Tesla and Waymo’s robotaxis aren’t perfect, but the goal isn’t perfection; it’s to make far fewer mistakes and cause far fewer accidents and injuries than the average human driver, which evidence from both Tesla and Waymo suggests is currently the case.
To be clear, the situations like the one shown in this video need to be addressed, but this is really just part of the process of reaching full autonomy. As long as these issues aren't common, and they are not safety related issues, it's not really a huge deal IMO.
Combined, Waymo and Tesla are probably giving over 600,000 paid robotaxi rides per week (Waymo being most of that), and only a very small percentage of those rides have any issues, and an even smaller percentage are safety related.
Tesla makes the #1 most American-made cars, not Ford or GM. In fact, neither Ford or GM have a car in the top 10 on the list of the most American-made cars (gas or EV), while Tesla takes the #1 and #2 spots with the Model 3 and Model Y.
Percentage of US/Canada parts content in each truck:
• Tesla Cybertruck: 65%
• Ford F-150: 45%
If Tesla and SpaceX merge, you’ll have AI (Grok), Physical AI (FSD), Robots (Optimus/Cybercab), Energy, Chip Manufacturing, and Rockets all under one umbrella.
Game over.