Ramez Naam
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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And you'll pay more for energy.
You're paying more if you're doing these small generators on site than if you would go to the grid.
But it's worth it because you're going to make so much money off of it.
We're getting there.
And all the data center builders have signed this voluntary pledge that they're not going to raise prices for their neighbors.
And in fact, you know, contrary to the public perception, places where we've seen the greatest data center build out in general have lower electricity prices in the country and have not seen them go up.
But that said, there's actually like regulatory challenges here.
The utility rates are set by the utility commission.
There's actually work that has to happen to make it possible for the utilities to
to let the data center builders pay for all this stuff and not pass on the costs.
So everyone's scrambling to figure that out now.
It's possible.
The math doesn't work on a price basis yet, but it could work with Starship.
So look, a Starlink satellite doing internet is kind of an orbital data center.
It's using its compute to handle telecoms and compression and everything.
channel hopping and so on, not for computing AI, but it has some compute on it.
We've had the first example of a satellite launch that has a GPU on it doing that sort of thing.
Nothing says it's impossible.
When you do the math, you've got to bring launch costs down by somewhere between a factor of four and a factor of 10.
from where they are now to compete against costs on the ground starship should be able to do that but it's going to require that we have you know two-stage reusability they got to catch both the upper and the bottom and they've got to be able to launch a lot of starships they've got you got to get to the point of launching starship multiple times per day for that launch cost to get cheap enough but
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