Philip Johnston
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first heard Aug 2026
last heard 5 Aug
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First thing every space company should do is book the first available launch they can.
Before they've built the thing that they're going to launch.
Before they've built the thing, before they probably even know what they're going to launch.
Booking a launch is such a good forcing function for a space company.
So we founded the company January 1st, 2024.
January 2nd, we booked the first available SpaceX rideshare launch.
And we were like, okay, something is going to be on that rocket.
I'm not 100% sure what it's going to be at this point, but something is going to be on there.
Thanks so much for having me.
So to start off, why data centers in space?
So we are very quickly running up on constraints on where we can build new energy projects terrestrially.
And so by building them in space, we get access to this almost unlimited low-cost energy in the form of solar.
Of course, there's other costs, like the cost of launch.
And the cost of launch is actually very rapidly trending down, with new launch vehicles coming online, the Falcon 9 program, and Starship on the horizon.
And so that's the reason we're building data centers in space.
I'd actually been working.
I was with McKinsey for a few years working with the space agencies of different governments.
And I could see that the launch cost was very rapidly trending down.
And actually in early 2023, I decided randomly on a weekend to take a trip down to Starbase, Texas, where they're building the Starship launch program.
even before the first launch, and not many people were paying attention back then.
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