A 2h autonomous car ride removes that entirely.

Look up Greenpeace Energy, and what cushy corporate job Schroder got after leaving office.

Exactly the same as shutting down perfectly fine German nuclear plants was aligned with Russian interests.

They certainly care that the US loses the race for AI.

2. Datacenters have been shown to reduce utility prices. They provide suppliers with previsible long term demand which allows for cost-effective network and production planning.

They don't have to, and the vast majority don't.

The lie and moral panic is that all datacenters necessarily waste precious drinking water; it's patently false and used by agitators to push, unwittingly or not, a Chinese Communist Party agenda.

They're destroying one (1) copy of a mass-produced item for each AI company.

Public libraries destroy millions more yearly as a matter of routine.

This is just part of a CCP-aligned moral panic, along with the water use nonsense, and similar with the soviet-aligned moral panic that destroyed the civil nuclear industry 40 years ago.

It's expensive, but you get what you pay for.

They were advertised as purchases. That they were not in actuality has a name: fraud.

Two things can happen:

The dream is a bust, and Tesla is worthless.

Or the dream pans out, and almost all other car companies are worth a lot less.

Unless you absolutely want to believe that either self driving is impossible, or Tesla is uniquely unable to achieve it, the valuation is not entirely unwarranted.

Put shortly, Tesla is not a car company, it's a bet on self-driving cars.