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ELON MUSK PREDICTS SPACE WILL BE THE CHEAPEST PLACE TO RUN AI INFERENCE “I think the case is a no-brainer for building solar-powered AI data centers in space” In space, you get unlimited solar power with panels facing the sun In the shadow, it’s freezing cold - just 3... show more

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"It's a no brainer for building solar powered AI data centers in space, you just have solar panels facing the sun, & a radiator that's pointed away from sun, then it's just cooling. The lowest cost place to put AI will be space, & that'll be true within 3 years." 一 Elon Musk

"It's a no brainer for building solar powered AI data centers in space, you just have solar panels facing the sun, & a radiator that's pointed away from sun, then it's just cooling. The lowest cost place to put AI will be space, & that'll be true within 3 years." 一 Elon Musk

DogeDesigner

6,138,329 views • 7 months ago

Elon Musk: The lowest cost place to put AI data centers will be space ---- “The lowest cost place to put AI will be space. I think the case is a no-brainer for building AI, solar-powered AI data centers in space because, as you mentioned, it's also very cold in space. If you're in the shadow, then it's very cold in space, just 3 degrees Kelvin. So you just have your solar panels facing the Sun and then a radiator that's like pointed away from the Sun, so it has no Sun incidence and then it's just cooling. It's a very efficient cooling system. So the net effect is that the lowest cost place to put AI will be space and that'll be true within two years, maybe three, three at the latest.”

Elon Musk: The lowest cost place to put AI data centers will be space ---- “The lowest cost place to put AI will be space. I think the case is a no-brainer for building AI, solar-powered AI data centers in space because, as you mentioned, it's also very cold in space. If you're in the shadow, then it's very cold in space, just 3 degrees Kelvin. So you just have your solar panels facing the Sun and then a radiator that's like pointed away from the Sun, so it has no Sun incidence and then it's just cooling. It's a very efficient cooling system. So the net effect is that the lowest cost place to put AI will be space and that'll be true within two years, maybe three, three at the latest.”

Beanie👾

1,098,183 views • 6 months ago

Elon Musk says Space will be the lowest cost place to put AI within the next 2–3 years: “It’s a no brainer for building Solar-Powered AI Data Centers in space because, as you mentioned, it’s also very cold in space. If you’re in the shadow, then it’s very cold, just three degrees Kelvin. So you just have solar panels facing the sun and then a radiator that’s pointed away from the sun, so it has no sun incidence, and then it’s just cooling. It’s a very efficient cooling system. So, net effect is that the lowest cost place to put AI will be space, and that’ll be true within two years, maybe three at the latest.”

Elon Musk says Space will be the lowest cost place to put AI within the next 2–3 years: “It’s a no brainer for building Solar-Powered AI Data Centers in space because, as you mentioned, it’s also very cold in space. If you’re in the shadow, then it’s very cold, just three degrees Kelvin. So you just have solar panels facing the sun and then a radiator that’s pointed away from the sun, so it has no sun incidence, and then it’s just cooling. It’s a very efficient cooling system. So, net effect is that the lowest cost place to put AI will be space, and that’ll be true within two years, maybe three at the latest.”

Nic Cruz Patane

115,890 views • 7 months ago

🇺🇸 Elon says Space X will launch solar AI satellites powered by the sun "The sun rounds up to 100% of all energy. Even if you were to burn Jupiter in a thermonuclear reactor, the amount of energy produced by the sun would still run up to 100%. One of the things we'll be doing with SpaceX within a few years is launching solar-powered AI satellites. The space is really the source of immense power." Source: Reuters, Elon Musk, SpaceX

🇺🇸 Elon says Space X will launch solar AI satellites powered by the sun "The sun rounds up to 100% of all energy. Even if you were to burn Jupiter in a thermonuclear reactor, the amount of energy produced by the sun would still run up to 100%. One of the things we'll be doing with SpaceX within a few years is launching solar-powered AI satellites. The space is really the source of immense power." Source: Reuters, Elon Musk, SpaceX

Mario Nawfal

30,426 views • 7 months ago

ELON MUSK: "The most obvious one is actually solar powered AI satellites, sort of to move the AI to orbit and essentially deep space over time, because there you can actually access over a billion times more energy from the sun in deep space than you can on Earth. The scaling to Kardashev, which is using some non trivial amount of energy from the sun. You kind of have to do space solar power. Like to even use a millionth of a percent of the sun's energy you you really have to be have your solar power in deep space."

ELON MUSK: "The most obvious one is actually solar powered AI satellites, sort of to move the AI to orbit and essentially deep space over time, because there you can actually access over a billion times more energy from the sun in deep space than you can on Earth. The scaling to Kardashev, which is using some non trivial amount of energy from the sun. You kind of have to do space solar power. Like to even use a millionth of a percent of the sun's energy you you really have to be have your solar power in deep space."

DogeDesigner

266,777 views • 9 months ago

Elon Musk says the future of AI will be “solar powered AI satellites in deep space”

Elon Musk says the future of AI will be “solar powered AI satellites in deep space”

Chief Nerd

16,277 views • 9 months ago

Elon Musk "Sun is the biggest source of energy. Within few years, we will be launching solar powered AI satellites because the space is really the source of immense power" - Elon Musk

Elon Musk "Sun is the biggest source of energy. Within few years, we will be launching solar powered AI satellites because the space is really the source of immense power" - Elon Musk

Aryan

11,620 views • 2 months ago

Elon Musk said the same thing. Space will be the most efficient place for AI compute. Earth systems are limited by cooling and power. For a 2 ton GPU rack 1.95 ton is cooling mass. Space provides 24/7 solar, no need for batteries, and easier cooling.

Elon Musk said the same thing. Space will be the most efficient place for AI compute. Earth systems are limited by cooling and power. For a 2 ton GPU rack 1.95 ton is cooling mass. Space provides 24/7 solar, no need for batteries, and easier cooling.

Rohan Paul

88,821 views • 9 months ago

The lowest cost place for data centers is space when 300 GW of computer data center you can power and cool in space when you have continuous solar and no batteries needed. Elon Musk

The lowest cost place for data centers is space when 300 GW of computer data center you can power and cool in space when you have continuous solar and no batteries needed. Elon Musk

Marc Benioff

174,374 views • 9 months ago

Elon Musk: "I think there's increasingly a convergence between SpaceX, Tesla, and @xAI, in that if the future is solar powered AI satellites, which is pretty much needs to be in order to harness a non-trivial amount of the sun you have to move to AI powered satellites in space"

Elon Musk: "I think there's increasingly a convergence between SpaceX, Tesla, and @xAI, in that if the future is solar powered AI satellites, which is pretty much needs to be in order to harness a non-trivial amount of the sun you have to move to AI powered satellites in space"

Sawyer Merritt

51,532 views • 8 months ago

ELON MUSK: "If civilization continues, A.I in space is inevitable. In order to achieve any meaningful percentage of a Kardashev II scale civilization where you're using even a millionth of the sun's energy, you must have solar powered AI satellites in deep space. My estimate is that the cost of electricity, like the cost effectiveness of AI in space, will be overwhelmingly better than AI on the ground. You actually don't need batteries, because it's always sunny in space and the solar panels actually become cheaper because you don't need glass or framing, and the cooling is just radiative."

ELON MUSK: "If civilization continues, A.I in space is inevitable. In order to achieve any meaningful percentage of a Kardashev II scale civilization where you're using even a millionth of the sun's energy, you must have solar powered AI satellites in deep space. My estimate is that the cost of electricity, like the cost effectiveness of AI in space, will be overwhelmingly better than AI on the ground. You actually don't need batteries, because it's always sunny in space and the solar panels actually become cheaper because you don't need glass or framing, and the cooling is just radiative."

DogeDesigner

9,304,711 views • 8 months ago

"The most important thing in the next 3-4 years is data centers in space. In every way, data centers in space, from a first principles perspective, are superior to data centers on earth. In space, you can keep a satellite in the sun 24 hours a day. The sun is 30% more intense, which results in six times more irradiance than on Earth. So you don't need a battery. The cooling in these data centers is incredibly complicated. Space cooling is free. You just put a radiator on the dark side of the satellite. The only thing faster than a laser going through a fiber optic cable is a laser going through absolute vacuum. Link satellites with lasers, and you have a faster and more coherent network than any data center on Earth."

"The most important thing in the next 3-4 years is data centers in space. In every way, data centers in space, from a first principles perspective, are superior to data centers on earth. In space, you can keep a satellite in the sun 24 hours a day. The sun is 30% more intense, which results in six times more irradiance than on Earth. So you don't need a battery. The cooling in these data centers is incredibly complicated. Space cooling is free. You just put a radiator on the dark side of the satellite. The only thing faster than a laser going through a fiber optic cable is a laser going through absolute vacuum. Link satellites with lasers, and you have a faster and more coherent network than any data center on Earth."

Patrick OShaughnessy

8,215,263 views • 8 months ago

Elon Musk on scaling AI in space: Earth is the bottleneck. "It’s harder to scale on the ground than it is to scale in space." "You’re going to get about five times the effectiveness of solar panels in space versus the ground, and you don’t need batteries. I almost wore my other shirt, which says, 'It’s always sunny in space.'" "In 36 months (but probably closer to 30 months), the most economically compelling place to put AI will be space." "Once you start thinking in terms of what percentage of the sun’s power are you harnessing, you realize you have to go to space." Source: Elon Musk with Stripe’s John Collison and Dwarkesh Patel

Elon Musk on scaling AI in space: Earth is the bottleneck. "It’s harder to scale on the ground than it is to scale in space." "You’re going to get about five times the effectiveness of solar panels in space versus the ground, and you don’t need batteries. I almost wore my other shirt, which says, 'It’s always sunny in space.'" "In 36 months (but probably closer to 30 months), the most economically compelling place to put AI will be space." "Once you start thinking in terms of what percentage of the sun’s power are you harnessing, you realize you have to go to space." Source: Elon Musk with Stripe’s John Collison and Dwarkesh Patel

a16z

408,524 views • 6 months ago

Elon Musk and Jensen Huang on A.I. In Space: "If civilization continues, A.I in space is inevitable. In order to achieve any meaningful percentage of a Kardashev II scale civilization where you're using even a millionth of the sun's energy, you must have solar powered AI satellites in deep space. My estimate is that the cost of electricity, like the cost effectiveness of AI in space, will be overwhelmingly better than AI on the ground. You actually don't need batteries, because it's always sunny in space and the solar panels actually become cheaper because you don't need glass or framing, and the cooling is just radiative."

Elon Musk and Jensen Huang on A.I. In Space: "If civilization continues, A.I in space is inevitable. In order to achieve any meaningful percentage of a Kardashev II scale civilization where you're using even a millionth of the sun's energy, you must have solar powered AI satellites in deep space. My estimate is that the cost of electricity, like the cost effectiveness of AI in space, will be overwhelmingly better than AI on the ground. You actually don't need batteries, because it's always sunny in space and the solar panels actually become cheaper because you don't need glass or framing, and the cooling is just radiative."

DogeDesigner

51,314 views • 9 months ago

$This is the next big plan for SpaceX: AI Data Centers in Space. • To achieve even a small fraction of a Kardashev Type II civilization (harnessing the full energy of the Sun), AI compute will require orders of magnitude more energy than Earth can ever provide. • Earth only intercepts about 1–2 billionths of the Sun’s total energy output. • Massive-scale AI (e.g., a million times more energy than Earth could produce) can only be powered by capturing far more solar energy in space. • Space-based solar-powered AI satellites/compute clusters are therefore inevitable. • In space, sunlight is continuous (no night, no clouds, no atmosphere), so no batteries are needed. • Solar panels in space can be extremely lightweight and cheap (no glass, no storm-proof framing required). • Cooling in space is dramatically easier and simpler: just radiate heat directly into the cold vacuum — no water, no fans, no liquids, no massive cooling infrastructure. • Most of the mass/volume of current supercomputer racks (e.g., GB300) is cooling hardware; in space that largely disappears. • The cost-effectiveness of electricity and compute in space will soon be overwhelmingly better than on Earth. • Elon’s Prediction: within ~5 years (by ~2030), the lowest-cost way to run large-scale AI will be solar-powered satellites in space. • A terawatt/year of AI compute is essentially impossible on Earth with any realistic build-out of power plants. • Scaling both power generation and cooling on Earth at the required rate is physically and politically unfeasible.$

This is the next big plan for SpaceX: AI Data Centers in Space. • To achieve even a small fraction of a Kardashev Type II civilization (harnessing the full energy of the Sun), AI compute will require orders of magnitude more energy than Earth can ever provide. • Earth only intercepts about 1–2 billionths of the Sun’s total energy output. • Massive-scale AI (e.g., a million times more energy than Earth could produce) can only be powered by capturing far more solar energy in space. • Space-based solar-powered AI satellites/compute clusters are therefore inevitable. • In space, sunlight is continuous (no night, no clouds, no atmosphere), so no batteries are needed. • Solar panels in space can be extremely lightweight and cheap (no glass, no storm-proof framing required). • Cooling in space is dramatically easier and simpler: just radiate heat directly into the cold vacuum — no water, no fans, no liquids, no massive cooling infrastructure. • Most of the mass/volume of current supercomputer racks (e.g., GB300) is cooling hardware; in space that largely disappears. • The cost-effectiveness of electricity and compute in space will soon be overwhelmingly better than on Earth. • Elon’s Prediction: within ~5 years (by ~2030), the lowest-cost way to run large-scale AI will be solar-powered satellites in space. • A terawatt/year of AI compute is essentially impossible on Earth with any realistic build-out of power plants. • Scaling both power generation and cooling on Earth at the required rate is physically and politically unfeasible.

Nic Cruz Patane

49,035 views • 8 months ago

$TSLA CEO Elon Musk says the cheapest place to run AI will soon be space. He thinks space-based data centers make economic sense within two to three years orbital compute becoming a real part of the space economy.

$TSLA CEO Elon Musk says the cheapest place to run AI will soon be space. He thinks space-based data centers make economic sense within two to three years orbital compute becoming a real part of the space economy.

Shay Boloor

58,307 views • 7 months ago

JEFF BEZOS PLANS TO BUILD A DATA CENTER IN SPACE WITHIN THE NEXT 10+ YEARS. UNLIMITED SOLAR ENERGY. 24/7 POWER. $AMZN AWS IS PREPARING FOR THE NEXT COMPUTING REVOLUTION. ELON MUSK IS PUSHING AI INTO SPACE. BEZOS IS BUILDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE. THE NEXT TECH WAR WON'T BE FOUGHT ON EARTH 🚀

JEFF BEZOS PLANS TO BUILD A DATA CENTER IN SPACE WITHIN THE NEXT 10+ YEARS. UNLIMITED SOLAR ENERGY. 24/7 POWER. $AMZN AWS IS PREPARING FOR THE NEXT COMPUTING REVOLUTION. ELON MUSK IS PUSHING AI INTO SPACE. BEZOS IS BUILDING THE INFRASTRUCTURE. THE NEXT TECH WAR WON'T BE FOUGHT ON EARTH 🚀

Vivek Sen

29,742 views • 16 days ago

ELON MUSK: “There's increasingly a convergence actually between SpaceX and Tesla and XAI in that if the future is solar-powered AI satellites. In order to harness a non-trivial amount of the energy of the sun, you have to move to solar-powered AI satellites in deep space, which somewhat is a confluence of Tesla expertise & SpaceX expertise, and XAI on the AI front.”

ELON MUSK: “There's increasingly a convergence actually between SpaceX and Tesla and XAI in that if the future is solar-powered AI satellites. In order to harness a non-trivial amount of the energy of the sun, you have to move to solar-powered AI satellites in deep space, which somewhat is a confluence of Tesla expertise & SpaceX expertise, and XAI on the AI front.”

Dima Zeniuk

14,152 views • 8 months ago

Elon Musk predicts AI compute in space could become cheaper than terrestrial AI far sooner than most people expect....possibly within just 2–3 years Because solar panels in orbit can generate roughly 5x more usable energy than on Earth because there’s: • No atmosphere blocking sunlight • No day-night cycle • No seasonal variation • Continuous exposure to the Sun • Far higher solar energy efficiency than on Earth Space-based solar can eventually become cheaper than terrestrial solar because you don’t need massive protective structures, heavy glass, or weather-resistant infrastructure And once launch costs fall low enough with fully reusable rockets like Starship, deploying AI clusters in orbit could become economically compelling The future of AI will scale with solar-powered compute infrastructure operating directly in space

Elon Musk predicts AI compute in space could become cheaper than terrestrial AI far sooner than most people expect....possibly within just 2–3 years Because solar panels in orbit can generate roughly 5x more usable energy than on Earth because there’s: • No atmosphere blocking sunlight • No day-night cycle • No seasonal variation • Continuous exposure to the Sun • Far higher solar energy efficiency than on Earth Space-based solar can eventually become cheaper than terrestrial solar because you don’t need massive protective structures, heavy glass, or weather-resistant infrastructure And once launch costs fall low enough with fully reusable rockets like Starship, deploying AI clusters in orbit could become economically compelling The future of AI will scale with solar-powered compute infrastructure operating directly in space

X Freeze

20,162 views • 3 months ago

ELON MUSK: "When you have solar in space, you get five times more effectiveness, maybe even more than that, than solar on the ground, because it's always cold, so you don't have a day, night cycle or weather, and you get about 30% more power in space because you don't have atmospheric attenuation of the power, the net effect in solar is five times more. Any given solar panel will do five times more energy in space than on the ground."

ELON MUSK: "When you have solar in space, you get five times more effectiveness, maybe even more than that, than solar on the ground, because it's always cold, so you don't have a day, night cycle or weather, and you get about 30% more power in space because you don't have atmospheric attenuation of the power, the net effect in solar is five times more. Any given solar panel will do five times more energy in space than on the ground."

DogeDesigner

35,114 views • 7 months ago