Musk's core argument is that AI's binding constraint has flipped from chips to electricity. Outside China, global power output is essentially flat while compute grows exponentially, so the next bottleneck is literally turning the GPUs on. Space-based solar is 5x more effective per panel, needs no batteries, and dodges a permitting regime so sclerotic that gas turbines are sold out through 2030 and a single interconnect study takes a year. The 36-month prediction is less about cool space hardware than about regulatory arbitrage against terrestrial grid build-out.
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