Bro… Elon just laid out the blueprint on how xAI and SpaceX are getting to 1,000+ gigawatts per year and beyond, in his closing statement at the xAI all-hands!
IMO, this is why there will be no competition in space.
1/ Earth Supercomputers (Now)
Build Memphis cluster to get us to >1 GW of power.
“We’re only right now using roughly one percent of the potential energy of Earth.”
Plan:
• 330,000+ Grace Blackwell GPUs
• ~1M H100-equivalent compute
• 1 gigawatt draw at full scale
• Built in <1 year
• Tesla Megapacks stabilizing energy
FYI, most AI companies are operating in hundreds of megawatts, yet xAI is already at a utility-scale gigawatt compute.
2/ Orbital Datacenters (Soon)
Get to 100-200 GW per year launched into orbit with a path to ~1 terawatt (1,000 GW) total from Earth launches.
“The next step beyond Earth data centers is our Earth orbital datacenters… launching at the 100-200 gigawatt per year level. Not cumulative, I mean per year.”
Benefits:
• Continuous solar exposure
• No land constraints
• No terrestrial grid bottlenecks
• Virtually unlimited horizontal expansion
FYI, 100–200 GW per year is equivalent to adding multiple large nation-scale grids annually.
3/ Moon Factories + Mass Driver (Mid Future)
Get to 1,000+ GW per year, several orders of magnitude beyond Earth.
“In order to do that you have to go to the Moon… We are actually going to have a mass driver on the Moon.”
Plan:
• Lunar factories build AI satellites
• Electromagnetic mass driver launches them without fuel
• Low lunar gravity reduces launch energy requirements
• Scales far beyond Earth’s physical constraints
FYI, this is when industrialized compute begins manufacturing off Earth.
4/ Solar System & Beyond (Long Term Future)
Today the sun outputs ~3.8 × 10²⁶ watts
“If we wanted to use even a millionth of the Sun’s energy, that would be roughly a million times more energy than civilization currently uses.”
This means
• 0.000001 of the Sun’s output
= ~1,000,000 × today’s global Earth energy usage. 🤯
“Earth is really a tiny, tiny dust mote in a vast darkness… The Sun is 99.8% of all mass in the solar system.”
To access that scale:
• Moon manufacturing
• Mars expansion
• Solar-orbit compute clusters
• Eventually tapping meaningful fractions of stellar output
So… the blueprint to get here is
1/ Start at 1 GW.
2/ Scale to 1 TW.
3/ Scale to 1,000+ GW per year.
4/ Then expand toward fractions of the Sun itself.
It’s clear that xAI + SpaceX is building the AI infrastructure and pathway to a stellar-scale energy civilization.
I really hope I’m still alive to witness all this.
🚨 🇺🇸 🇮🇱 Israeli Intelligence Officer Ari Ben Menashe CONFIRMS Netanyahu is blackmailing Trump:
"American Government is trapped by the Israelis. Jeffrey Epstein was one of their tools to trap them.”
https://t.co/YbQzkVWt4P
Jewish organizations got Bella Hadid’s canceled simply because she's Palestinian
In 1946 ships full of Jewish immigrants landed from Poland and arrived in Palestine
They needed a homes so her dad and grandfather took in a family and fed them for two years
In 1948 the family decided that they wanted the home and ran them out of their own home with guns
They fled to Syria
Almost every Palestinian prisoner is beaten and tortured while in jail in isreal
Why does our media ignore this?
It’s in blatant disregard of the Geneva convention and would not be ignored if it was any other county