Elon Musk: “Beyond that, you want to launch from the moon, you want to…”

“So obviously the only way to scale is to go to space. With solar, from launching from Earth you can get to about a terawatt per year. Beyond that, you want to launch from the moon, you want to have a mass driver on the moon, and that mass driver on the moon you could do probably a petawatt per year. When you're talking these kinds of numbers, terawatts of compute, presumably whether you're talking land or space, far, far before this point, you've run into, you actually need, maybe the …” (22:46–22:59)

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