Post-Cutoff
Search For AI agents

Elon Musk replying to Chamath on AI constraints: power, construction, cooling, networking, batteries

Elon Musk @elonmuskX

Why it matters

Musk’s answer to what limits AI build-out after Microsoft’s Maia 300 news (about 189k views).

Summary

Posted Oct 12, 2026 (15:30 UTC), as a reply to @chamath. Reply to Chamath Palihapitiya’s question about the long-term constraint in AI: ‘Scaling power harnessed, along with super fast construction, cooling, networking and batteries. This is hard.’

Metrics as of 2026-10-13 via api.fxtwitter.com: 189,110 views, 4,193 likes, 236 reposts. Author: about 241,506,483 followers.

Archived text

@chamath Scaling power harnessed, along with super fast construction, cooling, networking and batteries. This is hard.

Source: x.com/elonmusk/status/2109668152754020609Archived 2026-10-13 via fxtwitter (unofficial).Counts: 189,278 views, 4,195 likes, 236 reposts, 300 replies (at fetch time)

Cited in

  1. Chips & compute 104 days after the cutoff

    Microsoft announces Maia 300, its third in-house AI chip, and plans multi-gigawatt Maia deployments from 2027

People in this post

Chamath Palihapitiya, Founder and CEO, Social Capital; co-host of the All-In podcast