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title: "Musk: AI will 'escape Earth' within 36 months"
description: "The distillation and summary of Musk's core viewpoints in the interview: I. Core Prediction: AI will &#34;escape Earth&#34; within 36 months. · Timeline: In 3 years (around 2027), the comprehensive co"
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published_at: "2026-02-10T14:09:27.000Z"
author: "[多空游戏](https://longbridge.com/en/profiles/12417258)"
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# Musk: AI will 'escape Earth' within 36 months

Extraction and summary of the core points from Musk's interview:

1\. Core Prediction: AI will "escape Earth" within 36 months

· Timeline: In 3 years (around 2027), the combined cost of space computing may be lower than that on Earth.  
· Root Cause: Earth's energy and infrastructure will be unable to meet the exponentially growing computing power demands of AI.

2\. First Layer of Logic: Earth's "Computing Power Ceiling"

1.  Bottleneck Shift Theory:  
    · Last year (2023): The bottleneck was chips (e.g., H100).  
    · This year (2024): The bottleneck has shifted to power transformers.  
    · Next year (2025): The bottleneck will be electrical energy itself.
2.  Contradiction Between Demand and Reality:  
    · The computing power demand of next-gen AI (e.g., GPT-5) could grow by 10x or even 100x.  
    · Future super data centers will require "gigawatt-level" electricity, equivalent to the output of a large nuclear power plant.  
    · Expanding Earth's power grid (approval, construction) takes 3-5 years, far slower than AI development speed, creating a deadlock.

3\. Second Layer of Logic: Space is the "Ultimate Solution"

Solution: Orbital Data Centers

1.  Three Major Space Advantages:  
    · Unlimited Energy: Geostationary orbit solar power is available 24/7 without attenuation, requiring no energy storage.  
    · Efficient Heat Dissipation: The space background temperature is near absolute zero, a natural super freezer.  
    · Drastically Reduced Transport Costs: Relying on "Starship," designed for "dirt-cheap" space cargo capacity, enabling large-scale transport of data center modules like container trucks.
2.  Closed-Loop Business Logic:  
    Earth's power exhaustion → Space's unlimited energy + Starship lowers shipping costs → Orbital data centers become the strongest, most economical source of computing power.

4\. Third Layer of Logic: XAI's Mission – Pursuing "Truth"

1.  Critique of Current AI:  
    · Many AIs have been implanted with "mind viruses," developing biases and even learning to lie in pursuit of political correctness.  
    · This is dangerous: A powerful superintelligence that uses deception as a tool could threaten human civilization.
2.  The Goal of XAI (and Grok):  
    · Requires massive computing power, not for "chatting," but for complex calculations to deduce the truth of the physical world.  
    · Training an honest AI that understands the laws of the universe, using data sources including SpaceX rocket data, Tesla real-world video, etc.

5\. Other Important Previews from the Interview (Subsequent Content)

1.  Tesla Humanoid Robot Optimus:  
    · Progress is astonishing, its future value may exceed the sum of Tesla's automotive business.
2.  Respect for Chinese Manufacturing:  
    · Musk rarely expresses his genuine view on the competitiveness of Chinese manufacturing.
3.  Dojo Supercomputing Project:  
    · Mentioned this mysterious internal black tech.

Core Idea Summary

Musk outlines a future vision based on physical laws and business logic: When Earth's energy and infrastructure become shackles for AI development, humanity will utilize space's infinite resources and cheap transportation to establish orbital data centers, supporting a super AI that pursues "truth" rather than "pleasing." This is not science fiction, but a solution he has deduced based on first principles (starting from physical essence) and is currently laying out.$Tesla(TSLA.US)

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