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5 Feb 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
“I think you can get to around a terawatt a year of AI in space before you start having fuel supply challenges for the rocket.”
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- Speaker
- Elon Musk
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- Claim type
- belief
- Recorded
- 5 Feb 2026
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…Which is... I would expect it to be at least, five years from now, a few hundred gigawatts per year of AI in space and rising. I think you can get to around a terawatt a year of AI in space before you start having fuel supply challenges for the rocket. Okay, but you think you can get hundreds of gigawatts per year in five years time?…
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