{"id":312,"date":"2025-04-19T06:16:03","date_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:16:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/the-moon-should-be-a-computer\/"},"modified":"2025-04-19T06:16:03","modified_gmt":"2025-04-19T06:16:03","slug":"the-moon-should-be-a-computer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/2025\/04\/19\/the-moon-should-be-a-computer\/","title":{"rendered":"The Moon Should Be a Computer"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Assuming progress in industrial automation, humanoid robotics, artificial intelligence, and space technology continues as currently envisioned by these industries, we will in just a few short decades be able to deliver payloads of a self-assembling farm of robots to mine the Moon, create chip fabs, build, and ultimately tile the Moon with GPUs. The Moon has a surface area of 14.6 million square miles, roughly the size of Asia. If we very conservatively tiled even half the Moon with GPUs and solar panels, the Moon could sustain a billion times the compute of the Colossus cluster and, with a few turns of Moore\u2019s law driving chip technology forward, even a trillion times the compute.<\/p>\n<p>The Moon thus transformed will come to resemble something out of science fiction concepts of planet-sized factories or Factorio\u2014a popular video game among engineers working on these very technologies. This level of compute would effectively turn our Moon into a planet-scale supercomputer and represent a giant leap in Man\u2019s capacity to control our destiny.<\/p>\n<p>While it\u2019s difficult to estimate when we\u2019d absolutely need a Moon-sized computer, we know that we cannot increase our planet\u2019s energy consumption by two orders of magnitude without inducing a catastrophic warming\u2014which we were on track to do even before the AI revolution\u2014in around 200 years. This is a leisurely timeline when AI scaling laws have accelerated to mere decades.<br \/>\n\u2014 Read on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.palladiummag.com\/2025\/04\/18\/the-moon-should-be-a-computer\/\">www.palladiummag.com\/2025\/04\/18\/the-moon-should-be-a-computer\/<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Assuming progress in industrial automation, humanoid robotics, artificial intelligence, and space technology continues as currently envisioned by these industries, we will in just a few short decades be able to deliver payloads of a self-assembling farm of robots to mine the Moon, create chip fabs, build, and ultimately tile the Moon with GPUs. The Moon [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.adlington.fr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}