I'm fully committed to leading Tesla for the next five years and well beyond as long as I'm alive.
It's not about pay. What matters is enough voting control so activists can't oust me for political reasons. That's critical when we're scaling to millions, potentially billions, of humanoid robots.
I took the backlash personally. Burning cars, torching showrooms, death threats that's evil, not disagreement.
Those people belong in prison. The mission doesn't stop.
The Iron Law: "The expected value of any net impact assessment of any large-scale social program is zero."
The Stainless Steel Law: "The better designed the impact assessment of a social program, the more likely is the resulting estimate of net impact to be zero."
This is from an expert who desperately wanted the conclusion to be the opposite.
But the impact is never zero. It's always, actually negative. Because the money taken from taxpayers at gunpoint and spent on these programs is wasted. The effect is value destruction.
This is the reason federalism is so important. Individual states can become tyrannical but America still has an escape hatch that ensures the future of the whole country. If federalism fails, America does too.
We must protect Texas and Florida with all our being.
If bartenders can go to jail for over-serving alcohol to someone who then kills another person, judges should go to jail for releasing criminals who do the same.
The whole concept of an “insanity plea” is total nonsense. If someone is too delusional to understand that they aren’t supposed to randomly shoot people, that’s all the more reason to simply execute them. Society is not morally obligated to keep psychotic killers alive until they die of old age. It’s madness.
⚡️This is Musk trying to build the industrial heart of a post-human power system.
He is no longer talking like a car CEO or even an AI founder. He is talking like someone trying to compress the entire distance between thought, silicon, energy, and empire. TERAFAB is the visible artifact. The real objective is a self-reinforcing loop where chip design, mask creation, fabrication, testing, and redesign all live inside one accelerating machine.
The next real bottleneck in AI is iteration speed at the substrate level. Whoever shortens the path from idea to chip to improved chip starts compounding faster than everyone else. At that point, compute stops being a purchased input and becomes an evolving sovereign capability. That is why this goes way beyond “new fab.” This is a bid to stop renting the future from outside foundries and start owning the recursion engine itself. Reports on TERAFAB explicitly tie it to Tesla, SpaceX, and xAI together, which tells you the real architecture is vertical integration across energy, hardware, AI systems, robotics, and eventually space infrastructure.
The space language is the tell. When Musk says the goal is a trillion watts of compute per year and that much of it has to go to space because U.S. electricity is only about 0.5 TW, he is declaring that Earth is already too small for the civilization he wants to build.
That is a species-scale doctrine. He is saying serious AI abundance eventually requires off-world energy and compute, and that the winners of this century will be the people who build the bridge first.
The real view is simple.
The arc is dead serious. The execution risk is enormous. Coverage notes there is no clear operating timeline yet and outside estimates already put the effort above $20 billion.
But that does not change the signal.
If this works even halfway, it becomes one of the most strategically important industrial projects in the world.
If it fails, it still reveals the real direction of travel.
The future belongs to whoever controls energy, compute, and the speed at which compute can redesign itself.
Hormonal birth control is poison for the female mind.
The worst thing doctors do is immediately push birth control on young women as soon as they hit puberty.
ELON MUSK: “To reach a petawatt, we’d build an electromagnetic mass driver on the Moon with robots like Optimus and humans. With no atmosphere and 1/6 gravity, payloads can reach escape velocity without rockets, drastically cutting costs. That could scale compute 1000× beyond a terawatt—I hope we live to see it.”