Elon Musk's Terafab Project AI in Orbit

Kind: captions Language: en In order to understand the universe, you must explore the universe. And that's the motivation to accelerate humanity's future in understanding the universe and extending the light of consciousness to the stars. Inside the rusted iron skeleton of the Seahome power plant in Austin, Texas, Elon Musk didn't walk out to announce a new Tesla. He was there to address a real world problem that's fast approaching. A physical war of heat and wire. You see, AI has a massive problem, and it isn't about code. It is a critical case of the world running out of power. Right now, AI technologies are power- hungry engines, and we may soon hit a limit that our Earth simply cannot sustain. Musk admitted the truth. We're running out of places to plug these machines in. If we want to keep building the future, we have to stop looking for power on Earth and start looking into space. This is the Terraat. You're watching Humans Are Changing. To break this AI power limit, it starts with AI chips. Musk realized we can't continue to rely on the old way of building them. And that's why Musk's new $25 billion venture, Terraab, he believes will change everything. It's it's a hostile environment in space. So you want to design the chip uh you want to optimize it for space. So there just a bunch of constraints that would you you design something differently in space uh than you would on on the ground. >> Right now making a single AI chip is a 10,000mi race across the world. Designed in America, fabricated in Taiwan and packaged in Malaysia. If a single border closes or production stops, we lose the ability to build phones, cars, or even the simplest of electronics, leaving the already insatiable demand for AI infrastructure with nowhere to go. The Terapab puts the entire AI chip forge under one roof. Design, manufacturing, and testing all in one building. It could turn a six-month chip development and manufacturing process into a 6-day loop. At least that's the promise. But building these chips at lightning speed is only half the battle. The real bottleneck is where we find the power to keep them running in the data centers that they live in. Think about it. On Earth, our energy grid is old. When using renewable energy like solar, we lose 90% of the sun's potential before it even hits the ground. And solar panels only work during the day when we're facing the sun. In space, the sun never sets. An orbital data center in space powered by solar panels could absorb 10 times more light than any solar farm in Texas and never stop. No clouds, no night, just an infinite battery that never turns off. By moving data centers and AI infrastructure into the stars, Musk is plugging them directly into the source. But plugging into the source comes with a price. You see, you can't just put today's data centers and computer chips in the vacuum of space. Without Earth's magnetic shield, the radiation from the sun would fry these systems in minutes. This is why Elon Musk is starting with designing the D3 chip using the vertical forge in Austin, Texas as a radiation hardened survivor specifically engineered for this mission. Musk's vision is to launch 1 million of these chips into space, creating a global brain that lives in the stars. A massive orbital network of data centers and AI chips powering intelligence that never sleeps because its fuel never runs out. It sounds like science fiction, but the FCC filings are already live. Musk is building industrial-grade hardware. It is the biggest gamble of his $25 billion venture. If the D3 chips fail, the entire vision collapses. But if he's right, the future of science, technology, and AI will never be the same. It will be floating right above our heads. The future is changing and it's leaving our Earth for space. It won't happen overnight, but there might come one day when you look up and realize that the most powerful force in existence is orbiting amongst the stars. You've been watching Humans Are Changing. Subscribe because this is just the beginning. Thanks for watching and I'll see you in the next one.