Musk envisions lunar mass drivers launching compute to deep space for a petawatt-scale future
XFreeze · x · 2026-10-31
Elon Musk laid out a moon-scale compute vision: use Tesla Optimus robots, humans, and local lunar manufacturing to build massive compute infrastructure on the Moon, then launch it into deep space via electromagnetic mass drivers. With no atmosphere and one-sixth of Earth's gravity, electric acceleration to escape velocity needs no chemical rockets. The goal: scale compute from terawatts to petawatts — a 1,000x jump — which he claims would exceed the best-case value of Earth's economy. No timeline or engineering details given.
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