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Elon Musk on Elon Musk Podcast

Elon Musk Reveals xAI & SpaceX Masterplan - Full Musk Speech

Feb 13, 2026 · 39 min

Worth sampling for the unusually concrete lunar-compute roadmap and a few xAI operating claims, but much of the speech is promotional and overlaps Musk’s recurring themes about orbital AI, energy abundance, and expanding consciousness. Listen to the lunar section rather than the full appearance unless you want company-update detail.

Earth data centers is our Earth orbital data centers. And we'll be launching with SpaceX orbital data centers at the 100 to 200 GW per your level, not cumulative, I mean, per year. And ultimately we see a path to maybe launching as much as a terawatt per year of compute from Earth. But what if you want to go beyond a mere terawatt per year? In order to do that, you have to go to the moon South by having factories on the moon, building AI satellites and having a mass driver, which is the kind of thing you really learn about in read about in science fiction. But we're going to make it real. We're actually going to have a mass driver on the moon. And if you do that, you can go
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Elon Musk presents xAI as a rapidly scaling AI company focused on Grok, coding, image and video generation, digital-company emulation, and large-scale compute. He also advances a long-term SpaceX-xAI vision involving orbital data centers, lunar industrial infrastructure, and exploration beyond Earth.