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Elon Musk: “It's harder to scale on ground than it is to scale in space.”

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 02:08

Try getting the permits for that. So space is really a regulatory. It's really a regulatory play. It's harder to build on land than it is in space. It's harder to scale on ground than it is to scale in space. But also, you're going to get about five times the effectiveness of solar panels in space versus the ground. And you don't need batteries. (02:08–02:14)

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