Ariel Ekblaw
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1,219 appearances
5 recordings
4 series
first heard May 2025
last heard 26 Jun
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And that is leading people to search for creative solutions for where to cite energy-heavy consumption data centers.
And space is one opportunity.
Exactly right.
So that's a huge, that's a great point in that why are we considering space at all for this AI data center play?
It's because in the last 15 years, the cost to get to space has dropped dramatically from about $50,000 per kilogram in the NASA shuttle era, sometimes quoted even higher, to now a Starship coming online south of $200 a kilogram.
Which is remarkable.
That's like FedEx.
If you can ship something around the world, you can ship it to space now.
It's basically like cargo cost.
So that enables massive amounts of equipment, like what would be required for an AI data center, to be feasibly shipped to space with a reasonable cost.
In many ways, yes.
I mean, he's really an incredible, he and SpaceX, an incredible driving force of this reduction in launch cost because of the invention of reusable rockets.
So you can imagine how crazy it would be if you flew in a 757 or an Airbus to Europe and then you throw the plane away.
Yeah.
And so Elon realized this really early on, along with other companies like Blue Origin also have developed a reusable rocket craft.
That is really the innovation in the space industry that has achieved these remarkable dropping costs.
Yes.
Yes, that is comprehensive.
But I will say the MIT Space Exploration Initiative, I founded it, but we've had an amazing team taking it forward for the last few years.
So my focus is really on the Aurelia ecosystem, and that's the intersection of the nonprofit doing space for the public good,
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