Ariel Ekblaw

And that's a great metaphor, too, because that inflection moment that we saw with aviation where the cost started coming down, more people started flying.

It went from you dress up to go into first class, and it was a luxury thing to now.

Sweatpants.

To sweatpants.

pants I think we will eventually see sweatpants to moon you know we will eventually see just go in your pajamas you go to the supermarket in your pajamas and your Crocs and then you just go to space Crocs in space Crocs in space I'm more Birkenstocks girl but yeah we have to we can take Crocs in space

Yeah.

You have hit on the crux of the tension around this idea of AI data centers in space.

Take one step back and say, yes, we should be figuring out how to do big infrastructure in space and off-world, just like we were talking about at the beginning of the show.

For data centers in particular, what we think is going to have to happen is use a self-assembled approach like Tesserae to handle that.

Because if you have a traditional data center, you have these little volcanoes of heat in the servers.

You have to pipe out the heat via conduction

to these huge radiators.

And all you can do in space is radiative cooling.

It's radiative heat transfer.

If you had all of your competes.

So what we're trying to do with our decentralized tech for building things, even besides habitats, is can we use this self-assembly mechanism, put the compute that you need on an individual tile, put a solar panel that you need on that tile to get the energy you need, and on the backside is your radiator.

Right.

And so you're doing hyper-localized energy harvesting and radiative heat transfer for an AI data center.

So that's the vision for something like this that tessellates.

It's like a honeycomb.