Elon Musk's latest brainfart is to turn Tesla cars into AWS on wheels

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There are many reasons why this is likely more trouble than it's worth

EV carmaker Tesla is considering a wonderful money-making wheeze – use all of that compute power in its vehicles to process workloads for cash, like a kind of AWS on wheels.call for calendar Q1 that it had noticed its vehicles spend a considerable amount of their time just sitting there not moving.

He claimed that AI companies have batch workloads where they send"a bunch of documents" that are run through large neural networks and"take a lot of compute to chunk through." Musk compared it to Amazon Web Services, saying that people didn't foresee that AWS would become the most valuable part of Amazon.

Of course, all this compute capacity isn't sitting conveniently clustered together in a datacenter. It is distributed here and there, reached via a cellular connection in each Tesla, or possibly via Wi-Fi if the car is on the owner's driveway.in the UK, which uses heat from servers in homes to provide domestic hot water and rents out the compute capacity via cloud company Civo.

Would Tesla owners be able to opt out if they didn't want their vehicle used this way? That wasn't answered but it seems likely, that is, if the plan ever gets off the drawing board. There's no guarantee that it will actually come to fruition, for various reasons.

 

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