Moon disassembly for AI data centers may not actually be needed due to physics advances

Moon disassembly for AI data centers may not actually be needed due to physics advances | I I'm not actually 100% confident that we're going to need to disassemble the moon to build the Dyson swarm. There are scenarios where if there are radical advances in physics, maybe we discover we don't actually need to disassemble the planets

Watch events: Starcloud Blackwell satellite (Oct 2026); Google Project Suncatcher demo satellite; FCC DC filings

I I'm not actually 100% confident that we're going to need to disassemble the moon to build the Dyson swarm. There are scenarios where if there are radical advances in physics, maybe we discover we don't actually need to disassemble the planets

Physics breakthroughs making moon-disassembly unnecessary — speculative.

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