{"id":354430,"date":"2026-05-25T16:07:48","date_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/musk-abandoned-his-own-solar-electric-economy-to-burn-gas-for-an-ai-chatbot-no-one-uses\/"},"modified":"2026-05-25T16:07:48","modified_gmt":"2026-05-25T16:07:48","slug":"musk-abandoned-his-own-solar-electric-economy-to-burn-gas-for-an-ai-chatbot-no-one-uses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/musk-abandoned-his-own-solar-electric-economy-to-burn-gas-for-an-ai-chatbot-no-one-uses\/","title":{"rendered":"Musk abandoned his own \u2018solar electric economy\u2019 to burn gas for an AI chatbot no one uses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/7\/2026\/05\/musk-abandoned-his-own-solar-electric-economy-to-burn-gas-for-an-ai-chatbot-no-one-uses.jpg\" alt=\"Electrek\"><\/p>\n<p>Elon Musk spent years telling the world that solar power was the obvious answer to Earth\u2019s energy needs \u2014 that a small patch of desert could power the entire United States. Now, he\u2019s 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 \u201cmisanthropic and evil\u201d three months ago, and pitching space-based solar panels right as SpaceX files for a $2 trillion IPO. <a href=https:\/\/electrek.co\/2026\/05\/25\/musk-solar-hypocrisy-gas-ai-chatbot-space-solar-spacex-ipo\/ target=blank>Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230; <a class=\"continue-reading-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/musk-abandoned-his-own-solar-electric-economy-to-burn-gas-for-an-ai-chatbot-no-one-uses\/\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":354431,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"Default","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-354430","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-electrek"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354430","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=354430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/354430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/354431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=354430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=354430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.evearly.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=354430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}