Elon Musk 提出,要将 AI 计算从每年 1 太瓦扩展到 1000 倍,唯一可行方案是在月球上建造质量驱动器(mass driver)。他设想在月球本地生产光伏板和散热器,芯片可能从地球运抵或直接在月球制造。利用月球无大气、仅 1/6 地球重力的条件,通过电磁加速器(线性电动机)将 AI 卫星射入深空,无需火箭运载。
ELON MUSK: To scale AI, we need a mass driver on the Moon.
"In order to get to 1,000x from a terawatt per year. The only way that we can really achieve that is on the moon with a mass driver, essentially where you do local production of photovoltaics and radiators on the moon, maybe you bring the chips from Earth, or you could conceivably make the chips on the moon, and but you need most of the mass to be made on the moon, so you don't have to transport it to the moon from Earth, and then because the moon has no atmosphere and only 1/6 Earth's gravity, you can accelerate the AI satellites into deep space without a rocket, so you can basically shoot them into space using an electromagnetic gun, like a, like a rail gun type. I mean, just, it's basically a linear electric motor, as a way to think about it."