> and operates data centers in space that provide at least 100 terawatts of compute capacity

Rough estimate says this could (in the right orbit) lower Earth's temperature by 0.15 C just by blocking sunlight. And that's 5x the total primary power of all humanity combined at the moment, or 30x all current electricity.

And a few *million* Starship launches.

At this scale, I definitely think governments will be considering him a problem to be resolved with kinetic solutions. Even if they liked him, which I think they now mostly don't.

But the numbers are ridiculous enough to get mocked for the forseeable future. He'd actually need his Optimus robots to be von Neumann replicators to pull this off in his natural lifetime, and he's still on the decade old loop of "old self driving car computer not good enough, next one will be".

A million colonists on Mars is much easier, if only by comparison.

The trick here is that Musk doesn't depend on that compensation at all. This is just another PR trick to show that super-brain musk is here to advance the human race when he actually dgaf