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5 Feb 2026 Dwarkesh Podcast Elon Musk — "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space”
“I don’t know how to build a fab yet. I’ll figure it out. Obviously, I’ve never built a fab.”
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- Speaker
- Elon Musk
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- Claim type
- uncertainty
- Recorded
- 5 Feb 2026
- Publisher
- Dwarkesh Podcast
Transcript context
…I’d love to hear your manufacturing philosophy around fabs. I know nothing about the topic. I don’t know how to build a fab yet. I’ll figure it out. Obviously, I’ve never built a fab. It sounds like you think the process knowledge of these 10,000 PhDs in Taiwan who know exactly what gas goes in the plasma chamber and what settings to put on the tool, you can just delete those steps. Fundamentally, it’s about getting the clean room, getting the tools, and figuring it out.…
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