Gregory Carr
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2,075 appearances
6 recordings
6 series
first heard Dec 2025
last heard 7 Jul
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We'll see how long it takes.
So to stand up a one gigawatt data center, it's $35 billion in semiconductors and video semiconductors, and it's $25 billion of power and cooling equipment.
And that is clearly inflationary because a lot of that $25 billion is the human labor required to install it.
So the calculation that needs to be done for orbital compute is it's 35 billion of silicon in each space and, you know, in literally outer space and orbit and on ground.
But if you can get the cost of launch significantly below that $25 billion, then the math starts to really math.
And when Starship is reusable, it's going to cost $5 billion to put a gigawatt of compute into space.
And something that drives me crazy is people...
Picture these Pentagon sized data centers.
No, it's racks in space linked with lasers.
It's kind of a virtual data center in space.
Five billion of launch cost.
Now you're 40 billion to put the gig into space.
You're at 60 billion terrestrially.
And the 25 billion that is power and compute is clearly inflationary.
And so it may be that in three or four years, it's 70 billion versus 40 billion.
And that five, as Starship becomes rapidly reusable, is likely deflationary.
So this is the economics that underpin orbital compute from first principles.
And then on an ongoing basis, you're maybe paying a billion dollars a year for the power to run those chips and cool them.
Well, just out of genuine curiosity, how much does one of those Mantraps cost?
Like, why can't you put some of those in your... Yeah, maybe you could.
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