Elon Musk

As I said, we are scaling solar production.

There's a rate at which you can scale physical production of solar cells.

We're going as fast as possible in scaling domestic production.

You're making the solar cells at Tesla?

Well, Tesla and SpaceX have a mandate to get to 100 gigawatts a year of solar.

Five years, I think probably, if you say five years from now, we're probably...

AI in space will be launching every year the sum total of all AI on Earth in excess.

Meaning five years from now, my prediction is we will launch and be operating every year more AI in space than the cumulative total on Earth, which is, I would expect to be at least sort of five years from now, a few hundred gigawatts per year.

of AI in space and rising.

So you can get to, I think on Earth you can get to around a terawatt a year of AI in space before you start having fuel supply challenges for the rocket.

Yeah, I mean, that's actually a lower rate compared to airlines, like aircraft.

There's a lot of airports.

A lot of airports.

And you've got to launch the polar orbit.

No, it doesn't have to be polar.

There's some value to Sunset Grants, but I think actually you just go high enough, you start getting out of Earth's shadow.

I don't think we'll need more than, I mean, you could probably do it with as few as like 20 or 30.

It really depends on how quickly the ship has to go around the Earth and the ground track before the ship has to come back over the launch pad.

So if you can use a ship every, say, 30 hours, you could do it with 30 ships.

But we'll make more ships than that.