do you realize how insane this is? 100 GW of solar capacity every year. at continuous full output, one year's production could generate a fifth of all the electricity the US uses annually. ten years at that rate would mean 1 TW of capacity. SpaceX could generate roughly twice the current annual electricity consumption of the largest superpower in the world in just a decade. one single company.
Elon Musk (@elonmusk) profile pictureElon Musk
@elonmuskNov 10
SpaceX has ordered 100 GW/year of HJT solar manufacturing equipment from Singulus in Germany. This is for Starmind to create a sentient sun.
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China China installed 315 GW of solar in 2025.
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100GW in space is roughly equal to 800GW on Earth. Moreover, solar on Earth must be paired with massive batteries to continue powering compute at night and supplemented with combustion or nuclear power during winter. These are not the same at all.
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I can cover space in solar panels and still have no power. Can we use it? That's the question. Do we have some sort of umbilical chord to this magical power generation system?

Nov 11, 2026 · 9:38 PM UTC

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Not an expert but it seems that it is used to compute in space thus energy is used locally and data is transferred to Earth,I may be wrong here but that how I understand it.
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Ah I think my mistake was thinking that power was the product whereas it's actually the data. That is my mistake.
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