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On October 21, 2026, Musk responded to a post arguing that data center capacity and power are the real bottlenecks, offering the judgment that "power shortage" is an oversimplification of the difficulties of bringing large-scale compute online. He said that bringing large-scale compute online at extremely high speed is difficult in every respect; if the timeline were doubled it would be relatively easier, but there isn't that much time. This judgment currently rests on content posted by Musk himself as a single source of evidence, with no subsequent factual developments yet.
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Musk: Power shortage is not the only bottleneck for bringing computing power online
Musk responded to a post saying that data center capacity and electricity are the real bottlenecks, arguing that "power shortage" is an oversimplification: bringing large-scale computing power online at extremely high speed is difficult in every respect; if the time were doubled it would be relatively easy, but there isn't that much time.