Elon Musk explains how data centers in Space could help the US compete with China in AI “Given that Chinese AI companies are doing as well as they are with a relatively small amount of compute, it seems that if they had a lot of compute, there’s a good... chance they would be the leaders. The constraints on AI are essentially electricity and AI chips. China is very strong in digital AI, and it has far more electricity than the United States. In fact, China already has more electricity than the United States, Europe and India combined. The US government can prevent US companies from using Chinese models, but it can’t stop the rest of the world from using them. That won’t stop China from becoming the leader in AI. Digital intelligence comes down to how much AI compute, how many chips and how much electricity you have. The current constraint is electricity outside China. In China, the constraint is chips. China is also closer than most people realize to solving the lithography problem, which would enable it to make AI chips in very large volumes. Once we address the power constraint with AI data centers in space, the constraint will once again be chips outside China.”show more

I think she is too stupid to pronounce what Elon is trying to explain

Within a few months to years, @SpaceXAI will achieve an unprecedented level of advancement beyond humanity’s wildest imagination.

Elon focused on what the limitations are and how to get over them... and the lady kept going back to stopping and blocking China. Why??

She’s literally retarded she doesn’t even understand the point he made about China’s power grid. How is she not homeless? Why are women being given positions who are clearly above their pay-grade?

I don’t believe China will end up number one in AI or electricity. They are cut off from our country’s chips and burn coal for electricity. Their air is bad, and we cut off the student visa program, buttoning up intellectual theft. We have Elon Musk; we win, right Elon ? 🚀⚡️🛰️🚘

Why is it always about ENERGY!? But it is!!! People think money matters but nope…it’s ENERGY…check your resources countries!

We have to do something. We can not be behind China. This is ridiculous. Especially when China STEALS all of our IP.

I love Elon, however he smirks while China is preparing for war against the US.

I made this with GROK no way there's greater more than him

Elon is such a visionary, bro is at least 20 years ahead of all of us

You might Host some of these Ideas to the public at large on X. Since govt wonks seem to think a fait acompli is all we deserve, presentations designed to employ critical facts, and letting it percolate amongst the citizenry, will go far in the decisions of our Future.

calling BS on "Chinese close to solving the lithography problem to make advanced chips". Would love to see what information @elonmusk is basing that on.

huh?

Two major issues to mitigate, electricity and chips, to become the head in AI world. Watching how the US government ameliorates this.

He’s trying so hard not to say it… but he’s quietly admitting China is a serious AI superpower. 😂

Dude who is this interviewer? She is exactly the problem. She lives this sheltered life of mandarin hotels and private car service and runs in academic and Elitist circles she’s so insulated she’s out of touch. She has no damn idea what is happening. Thats the problem with media

The depth of this man’s knowledge is amazing.

My understanding was that they utilized other AI’s to train their AI’s essentially cheating, producing a better margin offering, and allowing them to undercut the very price per window/token than those that they “knowledge hacked” from our own AI’s already trained via expensive methods.

Proposing orbital data centers as a viable solution to terrestrial power and chip bottlenecks completely ignores the insurmountable thermodynamic, launch-cost, and maintenance nightmares of building in space.

elon aint a person bruh hes the product most advanced ai ever built running on starlink plus every tesla camera feeding it live data nonstop he made the network then jacked himself straight into it now he sees everything all the time while we still think hes just some rich guy tweeting

This is the truth. Intelligence is simply an ecosystem battle. Don’t suppress Chinese AI models. Compete by offering intelligence at the same low cost. Win on ROI with products powered by that intelligence.

He should have pushed back about the US holding China back.

Which Wall Street are you talking about? He controls two $T mkt cap companies. Basically does anything he wants. Has access to more info on the human population than anyone, especially after the DOGE data breach. Not losing sleep over Elon.

Talking bullshit that a 16years old can say if he’s following basic news and making it sound like something interesting 😂

It’s either small modular nuclear reactor on site for the United States or data center in orbit or nothing else

Another thing to thank legacy media and the Bernie Sanders ilk and his Chinese friends.

Elon basically said the only way to beat China’s power advantage is putting data centers in space. Casual.

Can’t we learn a lesson from a very intuitive China that managed to get to the frontier with inferior chips and compute. This doesn’t mean abandon the AI build out but we need to move in many different directions when it comes to AI. Like a multi modal LLM. We must be better.

with all the AI, humans cant even learn to cooperate with one another and have a win win for the universe

Ban the Chinese and then produce more electricity than China Europe and India combined. That can work. The reason is electricity already works best as a monopoly. Right now we have regional monopolies. Might as well cut the red tape n let them build nuclear power.

If space-based data centers become practical, they could completely reshape the global AI race.

Yeah, we built two nukes to China’s 40-50. Make no mistake, it’s about who can build and who is always in the way of that. The enemy always finds a way to be in the way of building meaningful things.

Why is it most impor we beat china in the “AI race”. No one has gave one good reason we should digitally imprison ourselves to beat china in some fake race

@elonmusk handled this interview wonderfully 👏👏👏 @theeconomist is a liberal rag