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5 Feb 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
“There’s some value to sun-synchronous, but I think actually, if you just go high enough, you start getting out of Earth’s shadow.”
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- Speaker
- Elon Musk
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 5 Feb 2026
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…And you’ve got to launch into the polar orbit. No, it doesn’t have to be polar. There’s some value to sun-synchronous, but I think actually, if you just go high enough, you start getting out of Earth’s shadow. How many physical Starships are needed to do 10,000 launches a year?…
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