Elon Musk
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Mars can still grow.
And so you can't be missing anything.
You can't be missing even like the equivalent of vitamin C or anything.
You've got to have everything you need for Mars to grow.
That's essential.
So my guess is that's about a million tons, but it might be 10 million tons.
I hope it's not 100 million tons.
That'd be a lot.
But we want to try to get to that point and secure the future of civilization as quickly as possible.
We're going to start with the world's richest man and the biggest merger of all time.
The net effect is that the lowest cost place to put AI will be space.
And that'll be true within two years.
Well, the availability of energy is the issue.
So, I mean, if you look at electrical output outside of China, everywhere outside of China, it's more or less flat.
It's very, you know, maybe a slight increase, but pretty much flat.
China has a rapid increase in electrical output.
But if you're putting data centers anywhere except China, where are you going to get your electricity, especially as you scale?
The output of chips is growing pretty much exponentially, but the output of electricity is flat.