The world may have just months left, Elon Musk warns in a frightening prediction

Musk’s core message is stark: the main constraint on artificial intelligence isn’t software progress but access to electricity. Training and operating powerful AI systems already consume enormous energy, and expanding national power grids is a slow, complex undertaking.

He suggests that political barriers, environmental concerns, and logistical challenges on Earth could restrict AI growth just as the technology is ready to accelerate.

Space, however, offers a different equation. Solar panels in orbit receive constant sunlight without clouds, darkness, or heavy reliance on storage, greatly increasing usable energy while reducing long-term costs.

This possibility introduces a subtle but unsettling implication. If orbit becomes the most economical place to run advanced AI, the center of technological influence may move beyond Earth’s surface.

The strongest systems humanity builds could end up operating above the societies they reshape, controlled by the entities that manage rockets and infrastructure.

In that scenario, questions of authority and responsibility shift alongside the technology itself.

Musk’s forecast, then, is not only about energy supply but about the future location of power in a broader political and societal sense.