Energy can't scale like data centers
LIVE from NEARCON Day 1 In SF (The Rollup)
“A nuclear reactor from permit to power takes about 15 years — last one we built was 14 years… This energy doesn’t move as fast as data centers do, and Elon was very clear… we cannot build more energy on earth, we got to go to space.” — 03:06:35
Context: Lists bottlenecks: gas turbines ~8-year wait, grid interconnection 10-15 years ([03:07:19]), transmission worse than production, utility-scale solar impractical without storage. Sets up his thesis of moving compute to where energy already is.