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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...

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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."

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Elon Musk says he has mapped out a plan to put a 100 gigawatts per year of solar-powered AI satellites into orbit. “We see a path to putting a hundred gigawatts per year of solar powered Al satellite into orbit, and having this be actually the lowest cost way to power and operate Al at a very large scale. For reference, the United States consumes roughly 460 gigawatts on average per year. We have a plan mapped out to do so. It gets crazy.”
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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.”

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39,804 views • 1 day ago

ELON MUSK: "We see a path to putting 100 gigawatts per year of solar-powered AI satellite into orbit. And having this be actually the lowest cost way to power and operate AI at a very large scale For reference, the United States consumes roughly 460 gigawatts on average per year. Because the average power load in the US is 460 gigawatts"
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ELON MUSK: "We see a path to putting 100 gigawatts per year of solar-powered AI satellite into orbit. And having this be actually the lowest cost way to power and operate AI at a very large scale For reference, the United States consumes roughly 460 gigawatts on average per year. Because the average power load in the US is 460 gigawatts"

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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

Here’s Elon Musk explaining that SpaceX could launch up to one terawatt per year of AI compute capacity into Earth orbit — equivalent to the power output of roughly 1,000 nuclear power plants. “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, per year. And ultimately, we see a path to maybe launching as much as a terawatt per year of compute from Earth. But what if you want to go beyond a mere terawatt per year? In order to do that, 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 only learn about in or 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 1,000 gigawatts or more per year and ultimately get to maybe a millionth and then a thousandth and maybe even a few percent of the Sun's energy.” xAI All-Hands, February 10, 2026
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This statement mind boggles Ron Baron. Elon is talking about putting 25% of U.S.’s electricity output of solar powered AI satellites into orbit. Best believe SpaceX’s Starlink and Tesla’s energy business is going to benefit materially from this. “We see a path to putting 100 gigawatts per year of solar powered AI satellites into orbit. And having this be actually the lowest cost rate to power and operate AI at a very large scale. For reference, the U.S. consumes ~460 gigawatts on average per year. Roughly a quarter of the U.S. electricity output. We have a plan mapped out to do it. It gets crazy.”
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This statement mind boggles Ron Baron. Elon is talking about putting 25% of U.S.’s electricity output of solar powered AI satellites into orbit. Best believe SpaceX’s Starlink and Tesla’s energy business is going to benefit materially from this. “We see a path to putting 100 gigawatts per year of solar powered AI satellites into orbit. And having this be actually the lowest cost rate to power and operate AI at a very large scale. For reference, the U.S. consumes ~460 gigawatts on average per year. Roughly a quarter of the U.S. electricity output. We have a plan mapped out to do it. It gets crazy.”

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9,521,594 views • 10 months ago

Elon Musk laid out the most ambitious compute expansion in human history and it ends with harnessing the Sun "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 this is just step one, the next step is Scale further from Earth to launch a full terawatt per year of AI compute into orbit It gets even crazier from here When even a terawatt isn't enough....Go to the Moon. Build factories. Build AI satellites Deploy a mass driver - the thing you only read about in sci-fi novels and push output to thousands of gigawatts per year and ultimately get to maybe a millionth and then a thousandth and 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"
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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”
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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”

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95,063 views • 3 months ago

Elon Musk on how Starship turns mass to orbit from thousands of tons into millions SpaceX already delivers almost 90% of all Earth mass to orbit with Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy Most of the remaining mass comes from China, while the rest of the world, including the rest of the US, makes up only about 5% to 7% But Starship takes this to a completely different level Today, SpaceX is around 2,500 tonnes per year to orbit With Starship, the goal is millions of tonnes per year to orbit And SpaceX can reach 1 million tonnes to orbit per year in about three years That is not a small upgrade That is many orders of magnitude more mass to orbit than what exists today Falcon made SpaceX the dominant launch provider Starship turns orbit into industrial infrastructure
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Elon Musk on how Starship turns mass to orbit from thousands of tons into millions SpaceX already delivers almost 90% of all Earth mass to orbit with Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy Most of the remaining mass comes from China, while the rest of the world, including the rest of the US, makes up only about 5% to 7% But Starship takes this to a completely different level Today, SpaceX is around 2,500 tonnes per year to orbit With Starship, the goal is millions of tonnes per year to orbit And SpaceX can reach 1 million tonnes to orbit per year in about three years That is not a small upgrade That is many orders of magnitude more mass to orbit than what exists today Falcon made SpaceX the dominant launch provider Starship turns orbit into industrial infrastructure

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13,643 views • 3 months ago

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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 Musk reveals the vision he's most excited to see in his lifetime "Earth only receives about half a billionth of the Sun's energy. The Sun is essentially all the energy" "If you wanted to harness a millionth of the sun's energy, that would be about 100,000x more electricity than we currently generate on Earth for all of civilization" "The only way to scale is to go to space with solar. 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" "With that mass driver on the moon, you could do probably a petawatt per year"
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Elon Musk reveals the vision he's most excited to see in his lifetime "Earth only receives about half a billionth of the Sun's energy. The Sun is essentially all the energy" "If you wanted to harness a millionth of the sun's energy, that would be about 100,000x more electricity than we currently generate on Earth for all of civilization" "The only way to scale is to go to space with solar. 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" "With that mass driver on the moon, you could do probably a petawatt per year"

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