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Elon Musk: “Harnessing a millionth of the sun's energy would be roughly…”

Featuring: Elon Musk, Senior Advisor to the President, Head of Department of Government Efficiency | National

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Elon Musk – "In 36 months, the cheapest place to put AI will be space"

Published | Video Starts at 1:03:37

So no, not infinite, but let's just say you could do many, many orders of magnitude of Earth's kind of current economy, like a million. Just to get to. That's why I think just to get to Harnessing a millionth of the sun's energy would be roughly 100,000 times bigger than Earth's entire economy today. And you're only at one millionth of the sun give of take order of magnitude. Before we move on to Optimus, I have a lot of questions on that. (1:03:37–1:03:50)

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