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

So, are there really three hours of questions or or has are you [ __ ] serious? >> Yeah. [laughter] You don't even talk about Elon, man. >> I mean, it's the most interesting point.

All the story lines are kind of converging. Yeah. >> Right now, so we'll see how much >> almost like I planned it. >> Exactly.

Well, we'll get >> I would never do such a thing. [laughter] So, as you know better than anybody else, uh the total cost of ownership of a data center, only 10 to 15% is energy. And that's the part you're presumably saving by moving this into space. Most of it's the GPUs.

If they're in space, it's harder to service them or you can't service them. And so, the depreciation cycle goes down on them. So, like it's just way more expensive to have the GPUs in space presumably. What's the reason to put them in space?

>> Um well, the availability of energy is the issue. Um so uh I mean if you look at at electrical output um outside of China everywhere outside of China it's more or less flat. It's very you know maybe a slight increase but for pretty close flat. China has a rapid increase in in electrical output.

But if you're putting data centers anywhere except China where you going to get your electricity um especially as you scale uh the output of chips is growing um pretty much exponentially but the output of electricity is flat. So how are you going to turn them chips on? um you know >> magical power sources, magical electricity fairies. >> You mean you're famously [laughter] you're famously a big fan of solar one terowatt of solar power.

So with a 25% compat factor like four terowatts of solar panels it's like 1% of the land area of the United States and that's like far in this you were in the singularity when we've got one terowatt of data centers right um so what are we running out of >> how far into the singularity are you though [laughter] >> you tell me >> yeah exactly so so I think I think we we'll find we're in the singularity and like okay we still got a long way to go >> but is this like a is the plan to like put it in the space ...