Elon Musk: “The next step beyond Earth data centers is Earth orbital data centers. We’ll be launching SpaceX orbital data centers at the 100 to 200 gigawatt per year level — not cumulative, per year. Ultimately we see a path to maybe launching as much as a terawatt per year of compute from Earth. But if you want to go beyond a terawatt per year, you have to go to the moon. By having factories on the moon building AI satellites, and having a mass driver — something you usually only read about in science fiction but we’re going to make it real. If you do that, you can go several orders of magnitude greater, to 1,000 gigawatts or more per year, and ultimately maybe even a few percent of the sun’s energy. It’s difficult to imagine what an intelligence of that scale would think about, but it’s going to be incredibly exciting.”