Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
Tesla CEO Elon Musk.
  • Elon Musk has been criticized for his decision to redirect Tesla's Nvidia chips to X. 
  • But Tesla's former head of AI infrastructure, Tim Zaman has come forward to defend Musk's decision. 
  • Zaman said that most wouldn't understand the "practicalities" of such a "crazy military operation."

Diverting Tesla's AI chips to X made sense given the logistics that come with assembling a supercomputer, the automaker's former head of AI infrastructure said on Tuesday.

"The practicalities of building a supercomputer are insane once you get down to it," Tim Zaman wrote in an X post.