
• H220 James Bond Prop vs. Nvidia H200 series
…the James Bond movie 🍿 from 1974. The plot centered around an “Energy Crisis” (stemming from events caused by an Oil Embargo by OPEC states — refused shipments of oil by tanker from the Middle East). The Bond Villain solved the energy crisis with Solar Power & H200 chips…
🔴This entire system trains Grok models and is liquid-cooled on a single high-speed fabric — exactly the kind of cutting-edge scale the Bond prop was meant to evoke.
Tesla also uses H200s (and there was some chip-priority drama)
• Tesla runs its own large Cortex training cluster with tens of thousands of H100/H200 GPUs (expanded by another 16k H200s in 2025).
• In 2024, emails showed Musk directing NVIDIA to prioritize shipments of GPUs originally reserved for Tesla to xAI and X instead — a clear sign of how he allocates these scarce high-end chips across his companies.
Multi-billion-dollar deals and direct partnership
• xAI has pursued $12–20 billion GPU purchase/lease deals with NVIDIA (including H100/H200 chips), with NVIDIA itself investing up to $2 billion in equity as part of a special financing vehicle to supply the chips.
• Elon has repeatedly called himself a “huge admirer” of NVIDIA and Jensen Huang, stating that SpaceX, Tesla, and xAI will continue ordering NVIDIA chips at scale. He’s praised the company’s market cap as “well-deserved.”
🤌The “interesting” tie-in to the Bond prop
🔴The H/220 label on the Solex Agitator you posted looks almost prophetic next to NVIDIA’s H200 naming and the fact that Elon’s xAI is one of the biggest real-world users of exactly that Hopper-family hardware. It’s a fun accidental parallel: a 1970s movie gadget dreamed up to solve an energy crisis with ultra-efficient tech… now mirrored by H200-powered AI clusters solving the compute/energy demands of modern AI.
No ownership stake or formal “interlock” beyond being a massive customer/partner, but the operational dependence is huge — xAI’s entire training advantage relies on these chips (while Tesla mixes them with its own custom Dojo/AI chips). Musk and Huang have a long, mutually respectful relationship going back years.
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