Elon Musk on data centers in space “The next step beyond Earth data centers is our orbital data centers 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 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. By having factories on the moon, building AI satellites and having a mass driver....which is the kind of thing you really only 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 a thousand 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 It's difficult to imagine what an intelligence of that scale would think about, but it's going to be incredibly exciting”
