Will Parker

People may not love it, but it's useful.

You have an interaction with it.

You go to a store that you might have something that you actually want to buy there.

You don't interact with the data center.

You don't get any use for it.

You don't go shopping there on Saturday.

Yeah, big time.

I mean, there's very organized groups of activists in many of these places that are the ones showing up to planning commission meetings and local government meetings of all kinds, sometimes filing lawsuits to try to block protests.

rezoning for data centers there's elected officials i would say increasingly so in places like virginia that have been voted in at least in part based on on the concerns of people who are opposed to the data center construction so it's a very visible contingent of people that are opposed to a lot of this construction

Hey, thanks, Dana.

Hey, thanks, Dana.

Yeah, you know, we used to live in this world where we had a mentality that space is big and we didn't have to be sustainable in the way that we acted in space because we didn't have to worry about collisions between satellites or debris objects. It was mostly a clean environment when we started our operations in space in the late 50s. Today, the environment is very different.

Yeah, you know, we used to live in this world where we had a mentality that space is big and we didn't have to be sustainable in the way that we acted in space because we didn't have to worry about collisions between satellites or debris objects. It was mostly a clean environment when we started our operations in space in the late 50s. Today, the environment is very different.

We have, like you said, tens of thousands of objects that are orbiting Earth, many more smaller debris objects that we have a hard time tracking. And so because of that, satellite operators constantly have to dodge debris. So the operating environment is becoming really complex and really difficult.

We have, like you said, tens of thousands of objects that are orbiting Earth, many more smaller debris objects that we have a hard time tracking. And so because of that, satellite operators constantly have to dodge debris. So the operating environment is becoming really complex and really difficult.

And that's bad news for the long-term sustainability of the environment for us to use for all the things that we rely on spaceport.

And that's bad news for the long-term sustainability of the environment for us to use for all the things that we rely on spaceport.

Sure. Well, we rely on the upper atmosphere to clean up low Earth orbit. So, you know, we like to think of space as being a vacuum, but really there's a little bit of air at the very top reaches of the atmosphere where most of our satellites are operating. Basically, if it weren't for that atmosphere, any debris, any satellite that we abandoned in space would stay there forever.

Sure. Well, we rely on the upper atmosphere to clean up low Earth orbit. So, you know, we like to think of space as being a vacuum, but really there's a little bit of air at the very top reaches of the atmosphere where most of our satellites are operating. Basically, if it weren't for that atmosphere, any debris, any satellite that we abandoned in space would stay there forever.

We rely on that atmosphere to basically reduce the energy from our satellites so that they spiral towards the Earth and eventually deorbit. So we need that cleaning force. If we don't have that force, then we would have these things in space forever. That is catastrophic to the environment, right? We have no way to remove the old junk so that we can have stuff to do in the future.