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

·Dwarkesh Patel··

In this episode, John and I got to do a real deep-dive with Elon. We discuss the economics of orbital data centers, the difficulties of scaling power on Earth, what it would take to manufacture humanoids at high-volume in America, xAI’s business and alignment plans, DOGE, and much more.Watch on YouTube; listen on Apple Podcasts or Spotify.SponsorsMercury just started offering personal banking! I’m already banking with Mercury for business purposes, so getting to bank with them for my personal li...

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