> How did Elon get so much NVIDIA hardware before everyone else?

He’s the richest man on the planet and doesn’t have a track record of not paying for shit he buys. If you want to reliably offload your chips, he’s safer than e.g. OpenAI who might or might not have the money when the bill comes due.

tesla not paying bills: https://www.cnn.com/2025/07/31/us/elon-musk-company-unpaid-l...

x not paying bills: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/02/24/musks-twitter-has-been-sued-...

spacex not paying bills: https://www.fastcompany.com/91124157/spacex-contractors-texa...

It has been leaked the have a huge open bill with AWS....

> He’s the richest man on the planet and doesn’t have a track record of not paying for shit he buys.

My impression was the other way around. The shenanigans he pulled around the Twitter acquisition were just farcical, and at Twitter he repeatedly refused to pay owed rent, etc. (I assume as a ploy to renegotiate terms).

> doesn’t have a track record of not paying for shit he buys

You mean like the time he committed to buying Twitter and then tried to back out of a legally binding contractual agreement to finalize the deal?

"doesn’t have a track record of not paying for shit he buys"

Hahaaha. A solid admission of being clueless.

Elon has a strong track record of doing shady stuff to get out of deals.

I've heard the harder part is to have data centers to put the nvidia hardware than getting the hardware currently.

And the secret ingridient to building those faster than others is... crime.

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/jan/15/elon-musk...

Holy shit:

> This article was amended on 16 January 2026 because a megawatt is a unit of power, not energy as an earlier version suggested.

Because he went all in with money before a lot of other people.

He moved as fast as he could with known financing