Elon Musk Thinking Latest Interview of Elon Musk.
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Feb 7, 2026 
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX and Tesla and founder of Neuralink and the Boring Company, discusses space solar power and why moving AI infrastructure to orbit could overcome terrestrial power limits. He explores Starship launch scale, moon manufacturing, and using humanoid robots (Optimus) to accelerate industrial growth. He also touches on chip and memory bottlenecks and the path from digital workers to advanced engineering tasks.
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Kardashev-Scale Energy Requires Space
- Long-term energy scale (Kardashev ambitions) demands space-based solar and eventually lunar mass drivers for petawatt-scale launch.
- Earth-based solutions hit physical, permitting and manufacturing limits long before astronomical scales.
Scale Chip Supply, Especially Memory
- Solve the chip shortage by vertically scaling fabs and process tools, using conventional equipment in unconventional ways to boost volume.
- Prioritize memory capacity alongside logic chips because memory may become the bigger bottleneck.
Chips Might Pile Up Unpowered
- Musk predicts chips may pile up unused because operators can't turn them on due to power shortages later this year.
- He contrasts edge compute (distributed power) with concentrated clusters facing 'turn-on' constraints.
