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Elon Musk: “The next step beyond Earth data centers is Earth orbital data centers. We’ll be launching SpaceX orbital data centers at the 100 to 200 gigawatt per year level — not cumulative, per year. Ultimately we see a path to maybe launching as much as a terawatt per... year of compute from Earth. But if you want to go beyond a terawatt per year, you have to go to the moon. By having factories on the moon building AI satellites, and having a mass driver — something you usually only read about in science fiction but we’re going to make it real. If you do that, you can go several orders of magnitude greater, to 1,000 gigawatts or more per year, and ultimately maybe even a few percent of the sun’s energy. It’s difficult to imagine what an intelligence of that scale would think about, but it’s going to be incredibly exciting.”show more

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LadyMorgan1 day ago

I was born too soon. I will miss all these beautiful things that are going to happen.😪😇

OneOfManyKurt21 hours ago

alright it's ambitious and visionairy but instead of creating an alien intelligence, why not just use the energy to improve everyones life on earth directly.

John K1 day ago

Orbital compute at 100–200 GW a year already sounds huge. Lunar factories and mass drivers are what push that into a completely different scale.

Yehoram Uziel20 hours ago

does not understand that data centers will never help anyone to to move from a launchpad to anywhere. Data is not energy that can fuel a rocket. Data is useless unless it can generate revenue stream. If space x wants to survive it needs a CEO that will generate revenues not waste resources @VDHanson @JonathanTurley @gen_jackkeane @billmaher @glennbeck @joerogan

Avraam Jack Dectis1 day ago

The sheer happiness on Elon’s face ….

Kissme20 hours ago

👍

Molly Sauls1 day ago

Please Elon .

Molly Sauls1 day ago

You’re getting carried away love.

Joshua Todd Andrik1 day ago

None of those ideas will work. first of all he's a thief. I'm actually the original inventor of x and until he talks to me and the FBI he' should not be trusted...

Ilya Smirnov1 day ago

Shesh!! 100 to 200 gigawatts per year is not even the number that gets me, it is the mass driver on the moon, that is the part where i have no idea how you even test it lmao

Imane1 day ago

🙌♥️💫🫶🤝🫶💫♥️ @elonmusk 🫶♥️💫🫶🤝🫶💫♥️🙌

József Vári20 hours ago

Elon Musk. Az orbitális adatközpont-tervei elképesztőek, de mi a helyzet a kommunikáció alfájával és omegájával: a biztonságos földre juttatással?

George strait1 day ago

Orbital data centers, lunar factories, and mass drivers sound like science fiction, but the underlying idea is ambitious: scale computing by moving infrastructure beyond Earth. The engineering challenge is enormous, but so is the vision.

David Standridge19 hours ago

Light pollution agnostic laser communication.

David Standridge19 hours ago

So, better laser codecs and wider bandwidth radios will be needed.

arte_ezio1 day ago

The completion of an Earth orbit data center will advance AI at an astonishing pace.

Lisa Tyree21 hours ago

Wow! Hope he can make it happen.

Enrique Campos Lage1 day ago

Si Elon , me lo estoy “IMAGINANDO”, igual que tú. Pero como tú , yo sé que se tardarán mínimo tres generaciones. Que tal si entretanto nos dedicamos a mejorar el planeta en que vivimos, o simplemente lo cuidamos mejor

Astronaut Max20 hours ago

A mass driver on the moon. Straight outa science fiction, and he says he's actually building it. That is AWESOME!

Garden ❤ Paws🐾18 hours ago

🚀🚀🚀🚀🚀

Dragonquest23 hours ago

1st Space Communication Center. My 💭 s: you going to own that ground? Example: what EARTHLING intraspace laws/rules exist esp. regarding planetary travel, exploration &inhabitance. Who's the Boss? 😲 Remember the old West?Settlers staked their ground; & yeah, it will matter.

stiliani sifaki1 day ago

🚀🚀🚀🚀

Bartosz Bieronski1 day ago

Next step is him in jail for a treason… @CIA @FBIDirectorKash @FBI he is collaborating with Chinese communist party… @elonmusk you are just a covert malignant narcissist…

Michael Skinner19 hours ago

It is such visions that bring great advances to humanity. Scale up your thoughts and dream big. That is what is happening. It is holds the key to the future. Elon is helping lead the way!

Fp Pro23 hours ago

Catherine, what's her name? The investor says that each launch has the potential to generate a billion dollars in revenue. Starship launches are supposed to cost $10 million per!

China Clark1 day ago

🩵Wow, Elon Musk is a real genius. He is now moving far beyond human understanding and belief. This is amazing and wonderful 🩵

Faith ramos1 day ago

Dreams do come true 👍 💥🔥🇺🇸✌️

FARLSinCHARGE18 hours ago

I think you could start with a surface based mass launcher then graduate to several Lunar orbiting mass launchers to speed up the dream timeline while simultaneously advancing the Mars City goal!

Astro Drift X1 day ago

Turning sci-fi mass drivers into real lunar AI factories could unlock intelligence we can barely imagine. What engineering breakthrough do you think gets us there first?

Natalia Shiriaeva MD1 day ago

Why all those data centers on earth and in Cosmos: orbit, moon..?!?

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21,962 views • 6 months ago

ELON MUSK: SpaceX will build a mass driver on the moon. "If you want to go beyond a mere terawatt per year, you have to go to the moon. So by having factories on the moon, building AI satellites and having a mass driver, which is the kind of thing you really need to learn about in read about in science fiction, but we're going to make it real. We're actually going to have a mass driver on the moon. And if you do that, you can go several orders of magnitude greater. You can go to 1000 gigawatts or more per year, and ultimately get to maybe a millionth, and then a 1,000th and maybe even a few percent of the sun's energy. I really want to see the mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space just go like just one after the other. I can't imagine anything more epic than a mass driver on the moon and a self sustaining city on the moon, and then going beyond the moon to Mars, going throughout our solar system, and ultimately, being out there among the stars and visiting all these star systems, maybe we'll meet aliens. Maybe we'll meet see some civilizations that lasted for millions of years, and we'll find the remnants of ancient alien civilizations. But the only way we're going to do that, do that, do that is if we go out there and we explore, and this is the path to making it happen."

ELON MUSK: SpaceX will build a mass driver on the moon. "If you want to go beyond a mere terawatt per year, you have to go to the moon. So by having factories on the moon, building AI satellites and having a mass driver, which is the kind of thing you really need to learn about in read about in science fiction, but we're going to make it real. We're actually going to have a mass driver on the moon. And if you do that, you can go several orders of magnitude greater. You can go to 1000 gigawatts or more per year, and ultimately get to maybe a millionth, and then a 1,000th and maybe even a few percent of the sun's energy. I really want to see the mass driver on the moon that is shooting AI satellites into deep space just go like just one after the other. I can't imagine anything more epic than a mass driver on the moon and a self sustaining city on the moon, and then going beyond the moon to Mars, going throughout our solar system, and ultimately, being out there among the stars and visiting all these star systems, maybe we'll meet aliens. Maybe we'll meet see some civilizations that lasted for millions of years, and we'll find the remnants of ancient alien civilizations. But the only way we're going to do that, do that, do that is if we go out there and we explore, and this is the path to making it happen."

DogeDesigner

50,514,856 views • 6 months ago

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Jaynit

54,723 views • 3 months ago

🚨NEW: Elon Musk explains the reason behind the SpaceX and xAI merger. "In order to understand the universe, you must explore the universe. That's the motivation behind the combination of SpaceX and xAI is to accelerate humanity's future in understanding the universe and extending the light of consciousness to the stars. So in the grand scheme of things, when you look at how much energy Earth is actually using for civilization, we're only right now using, call it roughly 1% of the potential energy of Earth. And if we wanted to use even a millionth of the sun's energy, that would be roughly a million times more energy than civilization currently uses. The only way to access that energy, the energy of the sun is to extend beyond Earth. Earth is really a tiny, tiny dust Mote in a vast darkness. The sun is 99.8% of all mass in the solar system, so you have to expand beyond the tiny dust mode that is earth to make any significant dent in using the sun's energy like says, you'd have to expand roughly a million times just to get to 1,000,000th of our sun's energy, and then going beyond that, exploring extending to the Galaxy. So the the next step beyond Earth data centers is our Earth orbital data centers, and we'll be launching with SpaceX orbital data centers at the 100 to 200 gigawatt per year level, not cumulative, I mean, per year. And ultimately, we see a path to maybe launching as much as a terawatt per year of compute from Earth."

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DogeDesigner

510,925 views • 7 months ago

ELON MUSK: "I do see a path to 100 gigawatts a year of AI powered space solar satellites. If you do a million tons of payload to orbit per year with 100 kilowatts per ton, that's 100 gigawatts of solar powered AI satellites per year. There's a path to get to a terawatt per year, then you want to make those AI satellites on the moon and use a mass driver. We should scale solar substantially in the US. Tesla and SpaceX are scaling solar, and I encourage others to do so as well."

ELON MUSK: "I do see a path to 100 gigawatts a year of AI powered space solar satellites. If you do a million tons of payload to orbit per year with 100 kilowatts per ton, that's 100 gigawatts of solar powered AI satellites per year. There's a path to get to a terawatt per year, then you want to make those AI satellites on the moon and use a mass driver. We should scale solar substantially in the US. Tesla and SpaceX are scaling solar, and I encourage others to do so as well."

DogeDesigner

975,939 views • 8 months ago

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Autism Capital 🧩

13,434,258 views • 7 months ago

$Bro… Elon just laid out the blueprint on how xAI and SpaceX are getting to 1,000+ gigawatts per year and beyond, in his closing statement at the xAI all-hands! IMO, this is why there will be no competition in space. 1/ Earth Supercomputers (Now) Build Memphis cluster to get us to >1 GW of power. “We’re only right now using roughly one percent of the potential energy of Earth.” Plan: • 330,000+ Grace Blackwell GPUs • ~1M H100-equivalent compute • 1 gigawatt draw at full scale • Built in <1 year • Tesla Megapacks stabilizing energy FYI, most AI companies are operating in hundreds of megawatts, yet xAI is already at a utility-scale gigawatt compute. 2/ Orbital Datacenters (Soon) Get to 100-200 GW per year launched into orbit with a path to ~1 terawatt (1,000 GW) total from Earth launches. “The next step beyond Earth data centers is our Earth orbital datacenters… launching at the 100-200 gigawatt per year level. Not cumulative, I mean per year.” Benefits: • Continuous solar exposure • No land constraints • No terrestrial grid bottlenecks • Virtually unlimited horizontal expansion FYI, 100–200 GW per year is equivalent to adding multiple large nation-scale grids annually. 3/ Moon Factories + Mass Driver (Mid Future) Get to 1,000+ GW per year, several orders of magnitude beyond Earth. “In order to do that you have to go to the Moon… We are actually going to have a mass driver on the Moon.” Plan: • Lunar factories build AI satellites • Electromagnetic mass driver launches them without fuel • Low lunar gravity reduces launch energy requirements • Scales far beyond Earth’s physical constraints FYI, this is when industrialized compute begins manufacturing off Earth. 4/ Solar System & Beyond (Long Term Future) Today the sun outputs ~3.8 × 10²⁶ watts “If we wanted to use even a millionth of the Sun’s energy, that would be roughly a million times more energy than civilization currently uses.” This means • 0.000001 of the Sun’s output = ~1,000,000 × today’s global Earth energy usage. 🤯 “Earth is really a tiny, tiny dust mote in a vast darkness… The Sun is 99.8% of all mass in the solar system.” To access that scale: • Moon manufacturing • Mars expansion • Solar-orbit compute clusters • Eventually tapping meaningful fractions of stellar output So… the blueprint to get here is 1/ Start at 1 GW. 2/ Scale to 1 TW. 3/ Scale to 1,000+ GW per year. 4/ Then expand toward fractions of the Sun itself. It’s clear that xAI + SpaceX is building the AI infrastructure and pathway to a stellar-scale energy civilization. I really hope I’m still alive to witness all this.$

Bro… Elon just laid out the blueprint on how xAI and SpaceX are getting to 1,000+ gigawatts per year and beyond, in his closing statement at the xAI all-hands! IMO, this is why there will be no competition in space. 1/ Earth Supercomputers (Now) Build Memphis cluster to get us to >1 GW of power. “We’re only right now using roughly one percent of the potential energy of Earth.” Plan: • 330,000+ Grace Blackwell GPUs • ~1M H100-equivalent compute • 1 gigawatt draw at full scale • Built in <1 year • Tesla Megapacks stabilizing energy FYI, most AI companies are operating in hundreds of megawatts, yet xAI is already at a utility-scale gigawatt compute. 2/ Orbital Datacenters (Soon) Get to 100-200 GW per year launched into orbit with a path to ~1 terawatt (1,000 GW) total from Earth launches. “The next step beyond Earth data centers is our Earth orbital datacenters… launching at the 100-200 gigawatt per year level. Not cumulative, I mean per year.” Benefits: • Continuous solar exposure • No land constraints • No terrestrial grid bottlenecks • Virtually unlimited horizontal expansion FYI, 100–200 GW per year is equivalent to adding multiple large nation-scale grids annually. 3/ Moon Factories + Mass Driver (Mid Future) Get to 1,000+ GW per year, several orders of magnitude beyond Earth. “In order to do that you have to go to the Moon… We are actually going to have a mass driver on the Moon.” Plan: • Lunar factories build AI satellites • Electromagnetic mass driver launches them without fuel • Low lunar gravity reduces launch energy requirements • Scales far beyond Earth’s physical constraints FYI, this is when industrialized compute begins manufacturing off Earth. 4/ Solar System & Beyond (Long Term Future) Today the sun outputs ~3.8 × 10²⁶ watts “If we wanted to use even a millionth of the Sun’s energy, that would be roughly a million times more energy than civilization currently uses.” This means • 0.000001 of the Sun’s output = ~1,000,000 × today’s global Earth energy usage. 🤯 “Earth is really a tiny, tiny dust mote in a vast darkness… The Sun is 99.8% of all mass in the solar system.” To access that scale: • Moon manufacturing • Mars expansion • Solar-orbit compute clusters • Eventually tapping meaningful fractions of stellar output So… the blueprint to get here is 1/ Start at 1 GW. 2/ Scale to 1 TW. 3/ Scale to 1,000+ GW per year. 4/ Then expand toward fractions of the Sun itself. It’s clear that xAI + SpaceX is building the AI infrastructure and pathway to a stellar-scale energy civilization. I really hope I’m still alive to witness all this.

Teslaconomics

526,866 views • 7 months ago

ELON MUSK: "The way to think about scaling long term is that Earth only receives about half a billionth of the sun's energy. And the sun is essentially all the energy. This is a very important point to appreciate because sometimes people will talk about marginal nuclear reactors or any various fusion on Earth, but you have to step up a second and say if you're going to climb the Kardashev scale and have some non trivial and harness some non trivial percentage of the sun's energy, like let's say you wanted to harness a millionth of the sun's energy, which sounds pretty small, that would be about, call it roughly 100,000 times more electricity than we currently generate on Earth for all of civilization, give or take an order of magnitude. So obviously the only way to scale is to go to space. With solar, from launching from Earth you can get to about a terawatt per year. Beyond that, you want to launch from the moon, you want to have a mass driver on the moon, and that mass driver on the moon you could do probably a petawatt per year."

ELON MUSK: "The way to think about scaling long term is that Earth only receives about half a billionth of the sun's energy. And the sun is essentially all the energy. This is a very important point to appreciate because sometimes people will talk about marginal nuclear reactors or any various fusion on Earth, but you have to step up a second and say if you're going to climb the Kardashev scale and have some non trivial and harness some non trivial percentage of the sun's energy, like let's say you wanted to harness a millionth of the sun's energy, which sounds pretty small, that would be about, call it roughly 100,000 times more electricity than we currently generate on Earth for all of civilization, give or take an order of magnitude. So obviously the only way to scale is to go to space. With solar, from launching from Earth you can get to about a terawatt per year. Beyond that, you want to launch from the moon, you want to have a mass driver on the moon, and that mass driver on the moon you could do probably a petawatt per year."

DogeDesigner

31,407 views • 7 months ago

Elon: To understand the universe, we have to explore it. Earth is a dust mote. The Sun holds 99.8% of the solar system’s mass. Orbital data centers are next. 100–200 gigawatts per year. Moon factories. Mass drivers. AI satellites into deep space. This is how consciousness scales. From dust mote to stars. Elon Musk

Elon: To understand the universe, we have to explore it. Earth is a dust mote. The Sun holds 99.8% of the solar system’s mass. Orbital data centers are next. 100–200 gigawatts per year. Moon factories. Mass drivers. AI satellites into deep space. This is how consciousness scales. From dust mote to stars. Elon Musk

Mario Nawfal

125,184 views • 6 months ago

Elon Musk believes SpaceX can deploy 100 gigawatts per year by 2030 • 1 GW per year by end of 2027 • 10 GW per year in 2.5 years • 100 GW per year in 3.5 years “Depending on the progress in chip making, going beyond that to scale to a terawatt per year which is 1,000 gigawatts”

Elon Musk believes SpaceX can deploy 100 gigawatts per year by 2030 • 1 GW per year by end of 2027 • 10 GW per year in 2.5 years • 100 GW per year in 3.5 years “Depending on the progress in chip making, going beyond that to scale to a terawatt per year which is 1,000 gigawatts”

Small Cap Snipa

95,063 views • 3 months ago

Elon Musk on why the Moon might come before Mars: “You don’t necessarily have to go through the Moon to get to Mars. But I think we can build a self-growing city on the Moon faster than we can on Mars” The Moon has major advantages for scaling AI in space: Because it has no atmosphere and only one-sixth of Earth’s gravity, you can use a mass driver (railgun) to literally shoot AI data centers into deep space - no rockets required You can also manufacture solar panels and radiators directly from Moon materials. This could allow scaling to over 1,000 terawatts per year of AI compute - compared to roughly 1 terawatt per year if launching everything from Earth Mars remains the ultimate goal - a whole planet with Earth-like gravity and a thin atmosphere that could one day be warmed up to have oceans and walkable surfaces without spacesuits But the Moon could be the faster stepping stone to build massive infrastructure in space

Elon Musk on why the Moon might come before Mars: “You don’t necessarily have to go through the Moon to get to Mars. But I think we can build a self-growing city on the Moon faster than we can on Mars” The Moon has major advantages for scaling AI in space: Because it has no atmosphere and only one-sixth of Earth’s gravity, you can use a mass driver (railgun) to literally shoot AI data centers into deep space - no rockets required You can also manufacture solar panels and radiators directly from Moon materials. This could allow scaling to over 1,000 terawatts per year of AI compute - compared to roughly 1 terawatt per year if launching everything from Earth Mars remains the ultimate goal - a whole planet with Earth-like gravity and a thin atmosphere that could one day be warmed up to have oceans and walkable surfaces without spacesuits But the Moon could be the faster stepping stone to build massive infrastructure in space

X Freeze

37,598 views • 3 months ago

Elon Musk announced a chip factory 10 times the size of Tesla's Gigafactory. The goal is to produce enough AI compute to equal twice the entire electricity consumption of the United States. He called it the Terafab. Here is the number that stopped me cold. The entire global AI chip industry right now is on track to hit around 100 gigawatts per year of compute. Every Nvidia GPU, every Google TPU, every chip from every company on earth combined. 100 gigawatts. Musk wants one factory to produce a terawatt per year. A terawatt is 1,000 gigawatts. Ten times the output of the entire global industry. From a single building. To put the scale in physical terms, the Terafab would need to be around 100 million square feet. You would need Starship point to point transport just to get from one end to the other. But the reason for the scale is not ambition for its own sake. To launch meaningful AI compute into space, you need a billion chips per year running at a kilowatt each. That is not a number the current industry can produce. The Terafab is the only way to get there. The timeline he put out: a gigawatt of space AI compute annualized by end of next year. Then 10x per year from there. 10 gigawatts by year two. 100 gigawatts by year three. A terawatt beyond that. Most people think orbital data centers are a decade away. Musk is building the factory to make them possible by next year.

Elon Musk announced a chip factory 10 times the size of Tesla's Gigafactory. The goal is to produce enough AI compute to equal twice the entire electricity consumption of the United States. He called it the Terafab. Here is the number that stopped me cold. The entire global AI chip industry right now is on track to hit around 100 gigawatts per year of compute. Every Nvidia GPU, every Google TPU, every chip from every company on earth combined. 100 gigawatts. Musk wants one factory to produce a terawatt per year. A terawatt is 1,000 gigawatts. Ten times the output of the entire global industry. From a single building. To put the scale in physical terms, the Terafab would need to be around 100 million square feet. You would need Starship point to point transport just to get from one end to the other. But the reason for the scale is not ambition for its own sake. To launch meaningful AI compute into space, you need a billion chips per year running at a kilowatt each. That is not a number the current industry can produce. The Terafab is the only way to get there. The timeline he put out: a gigawatt of space AI compute annualized by end of next year. Then 10x per year from there. 10 gigawatts by year two. 100 gigawatts by year three. A terawatt beyond that. Most people think orbital data centers are a decade away. Musk is building the factory to make them possible by next year.

Ihtesham Ali

318,691 views • 3 months ago

Elon Musk on building a self-growing city on the Moon: "You don't necessarily have to go through the moon to get to Mars. We can build a self-growing city on the moon faster than we could do so on Mars, and there's also the potential, if you say you want to scale far beyond what you can do from Earth, is that because the moon has no atmosphere and about 1/6 Earth's gravity, you can use an electromagnetic accelerator, a rail gun or mass driver, basically you don't need to use rockets to do AI data centers into deep space from the moon, you can literally just shoot them like a, like a rail gun type of thing, and and you can manufacture the solar, the solar and the radiators, solar power and radiators on the moon from moon materials that would allow scaling potentially to beyond 1000 terawatts a year, which is a truly staggering number. I think we can do probably do somewhere around one terawatt per year of AI space compute from Earth, but we can do 1000 terawatts or more from the moon."

Elon Musk on building a self-growing city on the Moon: "You don't necessarily have to go through the moon to get to Mars. We can build a self-growing city on the moon faster than we could do so on Mars, and there's also the potential, if you say you want to scale far beyond what you can do from Earth, is that because the moon has no atmosphere and about 1/6 Earth's gravity, you can use an electromagnetic accelerator, a rail gun or mass driver, basically you don't need to use rockets to do AI data centers into deep space from the moon, you can literally just shoot them like a, like a rail gun type of thing, and and you can manufacture the solar, the solar and the radiators, solar power and radiators on the moon from moon materials that would allow scaling potentially to beyond 1000 terawatts a year, which is a truly staggering number. I think we can do probably do somewhere around one terawatt per year of AI space compute from Earth, but we can do 1000 terawatts or more from the moon."

DogeDesigner

33,573 views • 3 months ago

ELON: EXTREME ENERGY SCALE REQUIRES LEAVING EARTH Elon says getting to truly massive energy output means thinking past Earth-based limits. Once energy production climbs by multiple orders of magnitude, launch constraints and gravity dominate the problem. In that context, the Moon changes what’s possible. Lower escape velocity and no atmosphere make large-scale deployment feasible in a way Earth cannot match. “There’s a path to get probably to a terawatt per year. If you want to go up another order of magnitude, or let’s say you want to go to a hundred terawatts a year, which is obviously kind of nutty numbers, then you want to make those AI satellites on the Moon and use a mass driver. On the Moon, you can just accelerate the satellites into escape velocity, which is around 2,500 meters per second. There’s no atmosphere, so a mass driver works very well there.” Source: Moonshots Elon Musk

ELON: EXTREME ENERGY SCALE REQUIRES LEAVING EARTH Elon says getting to truly massive energy output means thinking past Earth-based limits. Once energy production climbs by multiple orders of magnitude, launch constraints and gravity dominate the problem. In that context, the Moon changes what’s possible. Lower escape velocity and no atmosphere make large-scale deployment feasible in a way Earth cannot match. “There’s a path to get probably to a terawatt per year. If you want to go up another order of magnitude, or let’s say you want to go to a hundred terawatts a year, which is obviously kind of nutty numbers, then you want to make those AI satellites on the Moon and use a mass driver. On the Moon, you can just accelerate the satellites into escape velocity, which is around 2,500 meters per second. There’s no atmosphere, so a mass driver works very well there.” Source: Moonshots Elon Musk

Mario Nawfal

36,750 views • 8 months ago

Elon Musk on 𝕏 Spaces tonight: "The biggest opportunity on the moon is to make solar cells and radiators, and then, you're manufacturing on the moon anything that weighs a lot, chips maybe still come from Earth, they weigh very little. And then you can use a mass driver to put a billion tons of AI powered satellites into orbit per year. You could set a scale to 100 terawatts of AI compute per year from the moon. We already have 9000 satellites in orbit. So we know what it's like being in space."

Elon Musk on 𝕏 Spaces tonight: "The biggest opportunity on the moon is to make solar cells and radiators, and then, you're manufacturing on the moon anything that weighs a lot, chips maybe still come from Earth, they weigh very little. And then you can use a mass driver to put a billion tons of AI powered satellites into orbit per year. You could set a scale to 100 terawatts of AI compute per year from the moon. We already have 9000 satellites in orbit. So we know what it's like being in space."

DogeDesigner

241,278 views • 9 months ago

ELON MUSK: The only way to reach 1,000 terawatts of AI power is a mass driver on the Moon. "In order to get to 1,000x from a terawatt per year. The only way that we can really achieve that is on the moon with a mass driver, essentially where you do local production of photovoltaics and radiators on the moon, maybe you bring the chips from Earth, or you could conceivably make the chips on the moon, and but you need most of the mass to be made on the moon, so you don't have to transport it to the moon from Earth, and then because the moon has no atmosphere and only 1/6 Earth's gravity, you can accelerate the AI satellites into deep space without a rocket, so you can basically shoot them into space using an electromagnetic gun, like a, like a rail gun type. I mean, just, it's basically a linear electric motor, as a way to think about it."

ELON MUSK: The only way to reach 1,000 terawatts of AI power is a mass driver on the Moon. "In order to get to 1,000x from a terawatt per year. The only way that we can really achieve that is on the moon with a mass driver, essentially where you do local production of photovoltaics and radiators on the moon, maybe you bring the chips from Earth, or you could conceivably make the chips on the moon, and but you need most of the mass to be made on the moon, so you don't have to transport it to the moon from Earth, and then because the moon has no atmosphere and only 1/6 Earth's gravity, you can accelerate the AI satellites into deep space without a rocket, so you can basically shoot them into space using an electromagnetic gun, like a, like a rail gun type. I mean, just, it's basically a linear electric motor, as a way to think about it."

DogeDesigner

122,518 views • 3 months ago

Elon Musk on scaling AI beyond Earth. "To reach a terawatt of compute per year, we need about 10 million tons to orbit annually. This is feasible—no new physics required—and I'm confident SpaceX can achieve it." Most people treat orbital mass as sci-fi. Elon treats it as a logistics problem with hard numbers — and a factory plan to match. • ~10 million tons to orbit per year • Terawatt of solar for power • Terawatt of compute → Terafab fills the gap No new physics. Starship is the freighter. Terafab is the factory. "We're also scaling to a terawatt of solar for power. The remaining piece is a terawatt of compute, which is why we're building Terafab."

Elon Musk on scaling AI beyond Earth. "To reach a terawatt of compute per year, we need about 10 million tons to orbit annually. This is feasible—no new physics required—and I'm confident SpaceX can achieve it." Most people treat orbital mass as sci-fi. Elon treats it as a logistics problem with hard numbers — and a factory plan to match. • ~10 million tons to orbit per year • Terawatt of solar for power • Terawatt of compute → Terafab fills the gap No new physics. Starship is the freighter. Terafab is the factory. "We're also scaling to a terawatt of solar for power. The remaining piece is a terawatt of compute, which is why we're building Terafab."

Tesla Owners Silicon Valley

450,133 views • 16 days ago

ELON MUSK ANNOUNCED A CHIP FACTORY 10 TIMES THE SIZE OF TESLA'S GIGAFACTORY 🤯 HE CALLS IT THE TERAFAB. THE ENTIRE GLOBAL AI CHIP INDUSTRY IS ON TRACK TO PRODUCE AROUND 100 GIGAWATTS OF COMPUTE PER YEAR. MUSK WANTS A SINGLE FACTORY TO PRODUCE 1 TERAWATT PER YEAR. THAT'S 10X THE OUTPUT OF THE ENTIRE GLOBAL INDUSTRY. THE GOAL? BUILD ENOUGH AI COMPUTE TO POWER ORBITAL DATA CENTERS. MOST PEOPLE THINK IT'S A DECADE AWAY. MUSK THINKS IT STARTS NEXT YEAR. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY.

ELON MUSK ANNOUNCED A CHIP FACTORY 10 TIMES THE SIZE OF TESLA'S GIGAFACTORY 🤯 HE CALLS IT THE TERAFAB. THE ENTIRE GLOBAL AI CHIP INDUSTRY IS ON TRACK TO PRODUCE AROUND 100 GIGAWATTS OF COMPUTE PER YEAR. MUSK WANTS A SINGLE FACTORY TO PRODUCE 1 TERAWATT PER YEAR. THAT'S 10X THE OUTPUT OF THE ENTIRE GLOBAL INDUSTRY. THE GOAL? BUILD ENOUGH AI COMPUTE TO POWER ORBITAL DATA CENTERS. MOST PEOPLE THINK IT'S A DECADE AWAY. MUSK THINKS IT STARTS NEXT YEAR. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY CRAZY.

Vivek Sen

84,878 views • 2 months ago

ELON: SCALE CHANGES EVERYTHING WHEN YOU REACH ORBIT Elon says the numbers only sound extreme until you compare them to the right benchmark. By aircraft standards, the flight cadence is modest. By rocket industry standards, it’s transformational. Once payload reaches that scale, entirely new energy and compute possibilities open up. The math stops being abstract and starts becoming physical: “Ten thousand flights a year is a reasonable number. By aircraft standards, that’s a small number. It just depends what you compare it to. If you compare it to the rest of the rocket industry, it’s a very high number. We’re talking about a million tons of payload to orbit per year. If you do a million tons of payload to orbit per year with a hundred kilowatts per ton, that’s a hundred gigawatts of solar powered AI satellites per year. There’s a path to get probably to a terawatt per year.” Source: Moonshots Elon Musk

ELON: SCALE CHANGES EVERYTHING WHEN YOU REACH ORBIT Elon says the numbers only sound extreme until you compare them to the right benchmark. By aircraft standards, the flight cadence is modest. By rocket industry standards, it’s transformational. Once payload reaches that scale, entirely new energy and compute possibilities open up. The math stops being abstract and starts becoming physical: “Ten thousand flights a year is a reasonable number. By aircraft standards, that’s a small number. It just depends what you compare it to. If you compare it to the rest of the rocket industry, it’s a very high number. We’re talking about a million tons of payload to orbit per year. If you do a million tons of payload to orbit per year with a hundred kilowatts per ton, that’s a hundred gigawatts of solar powered AI satellites per year. There’s a path to get probably to a terawatt per year.” Source: Moonshots Elon Musk

Mario Nawfal

38,982 views • 8 months ago

THE PATH TO 100 TERAWATTS GOES THROUGH THE MOON "If you want to go up another order of magnitude let's say you want to go to 100 terawatts a year which is obviously a nutty number then you want to make those AI satellites on the moon and use a mass driver Like Robert Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. I love that book; it’s a sort of libertarian paradise on the moon On the moon, you can just accelerate the satellites into escape velocities around 2,400 meters per second and there's no atmosphere, so a mass driver works perfectly"

THE PATH TO 100 TERAWATTS GOES THROUGH THE MOON "If you want to go up another order of magnitude let's say you want to go to 100 terawatts a year which is obviously a nutty number then you want to make those AI satellites on the moon and use a mass driver Like Robert Heinlein’s The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress. I love that book; it’s a sort of libertarian paradise on the moon On the moon, you can just accelerate the satellites into escape velocities around 2,400 meters per second and there's no atmosphere, so a mass driver works perfectly"

X Freeze

550,100 views • 7 months ago