Ramez Naam

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373 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 16 Jul

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And so we don't know.

I think the maintenance question is one of the most unanswered.

We can do the math on cooling and say, OK, that just means launch cost has to be so much lower.

I don't think we have good data on how often things will break there.

And in particular, if you look at Elon's plans,

The hotter you run a chip, the easier it is to radiate away the heat.

But the hotter you run a chip, the more failures you have.

So he's talking about running these chips 25 degrees Celsius, 50 degrees Fahrenheit hotter than they run in data centers on Earth.

And that's a challenge.

That's what we've been doing.

We're making sand sentient, as they say.

So we've been taking information and compressing it into this physical stuff, the ability to compute into smaller and smaller packages.

But that has meant that while total energy use per unit of computation goes down, the density of it goes up.

So the temperatures of these things go up a lot.

I'll pitch again one of my startups, Pantelassa.

They do this at the ocean.

Yeah, the ocean guys.

What do they do?

Well, we just announced a big round of theirs a little while ago, led by Peter Thiel, among others.

They build these floating ocean data centers that bounce on waves.

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