back to article HPE may have bagged $1B order from Elon Musk's X for AI servers

Hewlett Packard Enterprise has reportedly secured a contract to supply Elon Musk's X, the site better known as Twitter, with more than $1 billion in AI-accelerating servers. The agreement, first reported by Bloomberg, cites anonymous sources that claim HPE is the latest to benefit from the Tesla tycoon's artificial …

  1. beast666 Bronze badge

    Hang on a minute. I keep hearing from commentards here how X is losing money hand over fist, advertisers have fled to hills and the entire X user base has moved to Bluesky or some other CSAM infested leftist social media platform.

    But here we are with a 'uge order for new servers to support X...

    What gives? Lol

    1. Bluck Mutter

      Stealing from the rich...

      He is diverting money from Tesla and the compliant board allow it.

      1. beast666 Bronze badge

        Re: Stealing from the rich...

        Do you have any evidence of this?

        1. Irongut Silver badge

          Re: Stealing from the rich...

          His own admission that he diverted 12k GPUs from Tesla to Xitter. It's even in the article you didn't read.

          1. BartyFartsLast Silver badge

            Re: Stealing from the rich...

            There you go bringing proof and facts to an argument, you must be one of those leftist wokesters if you don't believe supreme leader President Musk's lickspittles

            1. beast666 Bronze badge

              Re: Stealing from the rich...

              See my reply to Clever Dick - You leftist wokesters really are not the smartest.

          2. beast666 Bronze badge

            Re: Stealing from the rich...

            "Musk has previously redirected 12,000 Nvidia H100 GPUs originally bound for Tesla to xAI, arguing the parts would have sat unused otherwise."

            X != xAI

            Who didn't read the article Clever Dick?

            1. Lazlo Woodbine Silver badge

              Re: Stealing from the rich...

              From the article "X and xAI are quite tangled"

              Your reading comprehension appears somewhat lacking...

    2. Ken Y-N
      1. lglethal Silver badge
        Facepalm

        That money was raised for xAI, not Xitter. So legally speaking that money should NOT be being used for Xitter. But we all know that Musky isn't very keen on offering the legal system. But don't worry, I'm sure his best buddy in the white house will help him out. Eventually...

    3. blu3b3rry
      Devil

      Sorry dude, Sir Elon of Musk still isn't going to give you money for sticking up for him on here. He's a prat and like all prats, tends to be derided as such.

    4. Anonymous Coward
      Anonymous Coward

      Does Elmo actually plan to pay for these servers?

      He does seem to consider paying bills to be optional, as seen at X.

    5. msknight

      Order only worth it if he pays

      I agree. Musk has such a reputation for not paying his bills at the moment that I'd be very wary of doing any financial dealing with him.

    6. Roj Blake Silver badge

      You're assuming he's planning to pay for them.

      1. BartyFartsLast Silver badge

        Whereas the rest of us assume he isn't.

    7. Wang Cores

      Conservative partisans seem to have an affinity for CSAM given how quickly they find it anywhere they wander.

      1. BartyFartsLast Silver badge

        Weird isn't it, it's almost as if their internet bubble is defined by their prior activities and habit.

      2. beast666 Bronze badge

        "Ivor Caplin, who represented Hove as its MP from 1997 to 2005 and ultimately became a Labour government defence minister, was filmed on a Facebook Live video which saw him arranging to meet an “underage boy”."

        Yesterday 13th Jan 2025.

  2. EricM

    Business partners of former Twitter may have a word of caution for HPE

    Having delivered goods to one of Mr Musk's enterprises does not automatically mean getting paid ...

  3. BartyFartsLast Silver badge

    That's a hell of a lot of money to not get paid just to enable the world's richest toddler to create his own shit posting Jeeves simulacrum.

    1. Terje

      I have the theory that Elon is really only a dodgy custom LLM that spews out random stupidity from time to time, when he sometimes say something coherent and less than usually stupid, the actor playing him has lost the connection with the backend feeding him lines and have to improvise. This is probably just the hardware needed to train an updated version that will not spew out quite as much expensive nonsense.

      1. Gene Cash Silver badge
        Coat

        The scary part is this is the most plausible theory I've heard...

        1. MachDiamond Silver badge

          "The scary part is this is the most plausible theory I've heard..."

          It's all a cover. If you listen to his ramblings with all of the faff edited out, the underlying story reminds one of fluffy white cats and volcanoes. His most coherent speech was him telling his customers to GFY looking like the day after an all-night bender in K-town.

      2. BartyFartsLast Silver badge

        Interesting theory, but I feel it's less complicated and AI means Actual Idiot when you apply it to Elmo

    2. UnknownUnknown

      I hope HP aren’t booking any licences as Hardware sales.

      Any Sue diligence on the deal - esp. around getting paid.

  4. lglethal Silver badge
    Go

    I assume they're getting paid up front. You'd have to be an idiot to do any business with him otherwise.

    The Wiwynn case shows even if he orders a ton of stuff, it doesn't mean he's going to pay for it.

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    1. MachDiamond Silver badge

      "I really should use Mastodon more."

      No, get out in the garden more and put the brain on cruise control.

  6. Fruit and Nutcase Silver badge
    Gimp

    Musk Headroom

    May be he can use the extra grunt to make an AI character like Max Headroom, based on himself

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=egCOO7Zzq0U

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