Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work?

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Elon Musk wants to turn Tesla’s fleet into AWS for AI — would it work?

Image: Getty During last night’s earnings call with investors, Elon Musk threw out an all-time late-night dorm room bong sesh of an idea: what if AWS, but for Tesla? Musk, who loves to riff on earnings calls, compared the unused compute power of millions of idle Tesla vehicles to Amazon’s cloud service business. If they’re just sitting there, he mused, why not put them to good use to run AI models? (Also, have you ever really looked at your han…