Will Marshall

I totally understand that.

Why would you put a data center in space when you can just put it in space?

There's a lot of land.

Actually, what's surprising, though, is that when you do the math, when you look at all the costs of data centers, and there's a lot, the building, the permits, the land, the water cooling, all the different pieces, of course, the compute infrastructure itself,

And then you do the same for space.

There's the launch cost, the satellite cost, the processing cost, all these things.

And you put them side by side.

We did this as an exercise with Google about eight or nine years ago now.

And we assessed that simply when launch costs came down to about $200 to $300 a kilogram, it's simply cheaper to put in space.

And let me just give you a little insight that might help you see why.

In many ways, data center growth is a lot of power problem because they can't build enough power to power these data centers.

They can't just plug it in.

There's just not enough capacity in the grid.

So the cheapest by far way of getting power these days is solar.

You just put a solar panel on the ground.

It costs very little.

It's the cheapest.

more than anything else, nuclear, fossil fuels, gas.

It's the cheapest.

But, of course, on the ground, you don't want an intermittent power, right?