AUSTIN, Texas — Elon Musk has set a striking new benchmark for his clean-energy ambitions: Tesla and SpaceX, he says, are together aiming to produce 200 gigawatts of solar generation every year, a scale meant to power the vast computing infrastructure behind his artificial-intelligence push.
Musk disclosed the target during this week's White House gathering of technology leaders, tying the number directly to the energy appetite of the Colossus supercomputer complex and the AI models it trains. The figure would dwarf most national solar programs and cements the idea that, for Musk, electrons and intelligence are two halves of the same strategy. The remarks were reported by Teslarati.
Powering the AI Build-Out
The logic is straightforward. Roughly 220,000 of Nvidia's newest GB300 chips are expected to come online at Colossus 2 within a week, and each generation of data center draws more power than the last. Rather than lean on the grid alone, Musk wants to generate the electricity himself — pairing solar arrays with Tesla's battery storage so the compute runs clean and around the clock. It is the same integration story that drove Tesla Energy to a record third quarter on surging Megapack demand, now scaled up to match an AI roadmap.
