In Musk’s vision, orbit becomes the only place big enough for what’s coming. Space-based solar panels, flooded with uninterrupted sunlight, could feed vast AI data centers without batteries, weather, or nighttime. With launch costs falling and satellite constellations multiplying, he’s now planning up to a million orbital nodes – a floating, solar-powered nervous system for machine intelligence. The unsettling question he leaves behind is whether humanity can adapt as quickly as its own creations.
Elon Musk makes horrifying end of the world prediction – “just months left”