NYT: Elon Musk installed a gaming PC in the office of DOGE — the department that looks for inefficient employees in the US government

Why not play a couple of sessions of Diablo 4 between firing inefficient government employees, Elon Musk thought — and installed a gaming PC in his new DOGE office.

According to The New York Times, after the appointment for the position of «special civil servant» Musk planned to work in the West Wing of the White House, but later found it «cramped and unfavorable», so he moved to the Eisenhower Office Building — and now furnishes his office to his liking, including a «battle station for Diablo 4»

«He set up a gaming computer with a giant curved screen and flashing LEDs, and decorated the table with a DOGE sign and a MAGA» hat, — The New York Times writes.

In the photo published by the publication, you can indeed see all of the above — but what exactly the rig consists of is still a secret. There is a transparent case and, obviously, some kind of high-end graphics card (Kotaku magazine suggests Nvidia GTX 4000), as well as a wired keyboard and mouse similar to the Razer Basilisk model.

Робоче місце Ілона Маска в офісній будівлі Ейзенхауера / The New York Times — Elon Musk’s workplace in the Eisenhower office building / The New York Times

It is worth reminding that DOGE began its active work immediately after Donald Trump became president of the United States. The main goal of the department is to — to reduce budget expenditures and increase the efficiency of the US government, while cutting several departments and thousands of employees. Initially, Musk was looking for revolutionaries with super-high IQs who could work 80 hours a week to join his team, but it seems to be, These geniuses have not even managed to launch the organization’s website properly yet.

As for Musk’s gaming efforts, the billionaire, known for bragging about game records in Diablo 4 і Path of Exile 2, recently caught in a fraud: he actually paid other people to play for him and occupied leading positions in global rankings for his account. The billionaire has also recently announced the launch of a game studio based on his artificial intelligence startup xAI and the creation of «photorealistic graphics» with the Grok 3 chatbot — although he only showed a copy of Tetris generated by his AI using Python.

SpaceX engineers have replaced the fired FAA specialists — the agency that authorizes rocket launches for Musk’s space company