Elon Musk says space will be the cheapest place for AI data centres in three years

Talking on the Dwarkesh Podcast, co-hosted by Dwarkesh Patel and Stripe CEO John Collison, Musk said Earth has some insurmountable power bottlenecks in scaling AI. "The availability of energy is the issue," Musk said, noting global electricity output outside China remains "pretty close flat" while chip production surges.