Elon Musk: “My guess is at least a million tons to the surface of Mars.”

“… like a computer chip factory, but you need the ability to, to build computer chip factories. So this, this is going to really take a lot of tonnage. I mean My guess is at least a million tons to the surface of Mars. And maybe it takes less than that, but it's going to be, it's going to be a lot. But this is, this is a very exciting future.” (05:02–05:06)

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