Tesla is looking for people to build '1st of its kind Data Centers' Elon Musk's electric auto outfit Tesla appears to be building new datacenters. A recently posted job ad seeks a "Sr. Engineering Program Manager, Data Centers," to be based in Austin, Texas, and "lead the end-to-end design and engineering of Tesla's 1st of its kind Data Centers." The role is billed as "Responsible for leading …
architecture, mechanical, process/chemical, structural, or electrical engineering
Are they designing a building, a machine, a manufacturing plant, or making an existing design structurally sound and properly supplied with appropriate services?
It really doesn't sound like they have any idea what they want this person to do.
I wouldn't expect the 'Sr. Engineering Program Manager' to be personally doing any of those things - but as a background all involve a technical role in building a complex physical thing, often work together, and all are disciplines that will likely be managed by this person in this role. When you have a technical rather than administrative manager, one of the key benefits you're looking for is that they understand and can speak the language of the people that they are managing, after all.
"It really doesn't sound like they have any idea what they want this person to do."
Maybe not, but they've deployed the posting with the densest buzzword salad I've seen in a long time. It goes a long way towards saying very little about what the job actually entails.
That they must pray to Lord Elon five times a day (pray breaks are not part of the work day) and offer him 10% of the meager salary that they get paid as a tithe to the lord of the manor.
Then you can add,
- Drive a US made Tesla
- Live in a house smaller than Elon's one in Texas (a micro house)
- and vote for him when he stands for President (even though the law says he can't) as he can walk on water.
"'ll be shocked -- SHOCKED I tells ya! -- when it turns out the first tenant in these data centers that Tesla investors pay or turns out to be Twitter."
Tesla can be the lead investor in whatever this is supposed to be and it will then be hosted and maintained by X as a service for Tesla where it will slowly morph into being completely an X program where Tesla becomes a lead client with no stake. This allows Elon to siphon money from his only profitable company to pay for stuff he thinks might make money. More than making money, it has to see a massive rise in valuation with Elon holding a controlling interest through a very profitable IPO. Neuralink doesn't look like its going to go anywhere. TBC has had two paying gigs where one doesn't meet the terms of the contract and SpaceX is spending billions of new investor dollars on Starship and Starlink. If Elon wants to grow his empire, he needs another Tesla.
.. to achieve objectives
With the ultimate objective to be achieved being exactly what? ...... is the leading question which anyone/anything with an inkling of interest of making themselves known and available for sensitive and top secret hire would be asking or forwarding ....... thus to ensure a mutually beneficial, positively reinforcing, excessively rewarding Singularity of Greater IntelAIgent Game purpose is remotely agreed, virtually signed and effectively sealed for immediate future delivery before the fact.
See androids fighting, Brad and Janet[3]
Thanks for the reminder, I had totally forgotten about the Teslabot!
[1] only an honorary doctorate
[2] from the corpse of the giant blue bird crawled a monstrous deformed shape
[3] Brad and Janet are the minions who are pushing the "robots" around on their stands
The biggest cost for current AI training is the data center costs. Maybe this is more up Musk's alley than Twitter.
Somehow he has run other ventures successfully by hiring good people and giving them room to succeed.
Those ventures were all connected with building actual things, the economies of production, and being price competitive.
As it happens all the big cloud companies have all just fired tons of people, raised prices, and are hoping to rest on their ... dividends.
I'd be glad to see any hungry new company given them a run for their money (and liven up the job market).
When you look at Musk's competitor's in the world of CEO's, you'll see the field heavily tilted towards MBA/financial credentials, and a polished image. Against that background, Musk looks a lot less awful.
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