Casey Handmer
👤 SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
So right now we're talking about, like, AI racking and grid and transmission and a bunch of, like, ISOs and all that rest.
You don't need any of that stuff, right?
And, like...
Obviously, XAI is on top of this, because the first thing that Elon will always ask is, like, delete anything you don't absolutely need.
So what you actually need is a big slab of relatively cheap silicon to make the power, and then a small slab of relatively expensive silicon to do the thinking.
And if it's in space, that's all you need, right?
Because it's in the sun all the time, so you don't need a battery, right?
But if you're on the Earth, you need a battery as well.
So you need some interconnects.
And you don't need a transformer, right?
You don't even need a DC-DC converter.
You can actually make do with buck converter or with relays or whatever to basically match the current output of your solar array with the charge state of your batteries and the power consumption of your...
GPU or something but like a solar array about the size of this desk for example will generate about 500 watts in full sun so you can actually imagine like aliens who have different silicon technology stack building their systems as like an integrated solar array with you know a bit of a bit of
you know, computranium in the middle, for example, on the same wafer.
But that's basically all you need.
On the same wafer, because it's all silicon.
It's all silicon.
It's all silicon all the way down.
What's silicon made of?
Well, it's an element.