You disassemble a planet for the raw materials. Mercury would do.
The real problem is that Dyson spheres are wasteful because stellar fusion is thermodynamically inefficient. If you harvest the material of the star and fuse it yourself, you can keep the lights on for trillions of years.
The real problem is that Dyson spheres are wasteful because stellar fusion is thermodynamically inefficient. If you harvest the material of the star and fuse it yourself, you can keep the lights on for trillions of years.