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Philip Johnston

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Co-founder & CEO of @Starcloud_ - Building data centers in space.

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Elon at Davos: “The lowest cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true in 3 years at the latest!”🚀 Awesome for me to be in the room to hear Elon Musk share this 🤩🤩🤩

Elon at Davos: “The lowest cost place to put AI will be in space, and that will be true in 3 years at the latest!”🚀 Awesome for me to be in the room to hear Elon Musk share this 🤩🤩🤩

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We built a ‘rotisserie’ as demoed by Bailey Montano, anyone wanna take a guess what we’re using it for? 🐓😅 Starcloud

We built a ‘rotisserie’ as demoed by Bailey Montano, anyone wanna take a guess what we’re using it for? 🐓😅 Starcloud

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“There is a working NVIDIA H100 in space today” Onboard Starcloud-1! 🚀 Thanks Gavin Baker 🙏🫡

“There is a working NVIDIA H100 in space today” Onboard Starcloud-1! 🚀 Thanks Gavin Baker 🙏🫡

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“All of the physics questions of orbital compute are easily solvable. Heat rejection is not a real problem.” Jeff Bezos

“All of the physics questions of orbital compute are easily solvable. Heat rejection is not a real problem.” Jeff Bezos

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“The most important thing that’s going to happen in the world in the next 3-4 year is data centers in space” - Gavin Baker We have the first Nvidia H100 operating in space at 🚀

“The most important thing that’s going to happen in the world in the next 3-4 year is data centers in space” - Gavin Baker We have the first Nvidia H100 operating in space at 🚀

Philip Johnston

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This is Figure III announced today. I’m sorry but every other form factor besides humanoids will be crushed 🦾🤖🦾 I keep hearing people starting specialized robotics companies, “like robots for laundry”. And the pitch is: “you don’t need a humanoid form factor to do laundry, it can be much simpler”. That’s true. But, humanoids can do everything and will become the default form factor and so will be mass manufactured and so will be extremely cheap compared to lower volume robots. Its so obvious, it will be humanoids doing laundry, not a specialized laundry robot 🤦‍♂️ The one main exception to that might be line work in a factory where you do just need the arms and you can mass manufacture them (a al Proception)

This is Figure III announced today. I’m sorry but every other form factor besides humanoids will be crushed 🦾🤖🦾 I keep hearing people starting specialized robotics companies, “like robots for laundry”. And the pitch is: “you don’t need a humanoid form factor to do laundry, it can be much simpler”. That’s true. But, humanoids can do everything and will become the default form factor and so will be mass manufactured and so will be extremely cheap compared to lower volume robots. Its so obvious, it will be humanoids doing laundry, not a specialized laundry robot 🤦‍♂️ The one main exception to that might be line work in a factory where you do just need the arms and you can mass manufacture them (a al Proception)

Philip Johnston

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Recently @EricSchmidt (former Google CEO) told congress that data centers will go from 3% now to 99% 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 😲 The only way to meet that demand is data centers powered by solar in space 🚀

Recently @EricSchmidt (former Google CEO) told congress that data centers will go from 3% now to 99% 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 😲 The only way to meet that demand is data centers powered by solar in space 🚀

Philip Johnston

878,628 Aufrufe • vor 1 Jahr

I just watched Jensen walk on stage to the deployment of Starcloud-1 😱🤯😲 @NVIDIA GTC

I just watched Jensen walk on stage to the deployment of Starcloud-1 😱🤯😲 @NVIDIA GTC

Philip Johnston

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“For some reason there’s been a bizarre debate about radiators in space.” 😅💀 ‘Bizarre’ is the right word give that the ISS has been doing this for decades 🙄 Elon Musk

“For some reason there’s been a bizarre debate about radiators in space.” 😅💀 ‘Bizarre’ is the right word give that the ISS has been doing this for decades 🙄 Elon Musk

Philip Johnston

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Jensen just walked on stage to the Starcloud-1 deployment video at @NVIDIA’s GTC Taipei! 😍👌🚀 Video courtesy of SpaceX 🙏🙏

Jensen just walked on stage to the Starcloud-1 deployment video at @NVIDIA’s GTC Taipei! 😍👌🚀 Video courtesy of SpaceX 🙏🙏

Philip Johnston

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Thanks for the Starcloud and orbital data center feature CNN! 🚀

Thanks for the Starcloud and orbital data center feature CNN! 🚀

Philip Johnston

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So much fun to come on the Moonshots podcast with Peter H. Diamandis, MD, Dave Blundin, Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross, and Salim Ismail! 🚀 Thanks for having me! 🙏 Have a listen for all things Starcloud and space news!

So much fun to come on the Moonshots podcast with Peter H. Diamandis, MD, Dave Blundin, Dr. Alex Wissner-Gross, and Salim Ismail! 🚀 Thanks for having me! 🙏 Have a listen for all things Starcloud and space news!

Philip Johnston

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For the last several months, we’ve been working on the design of our Starcloud-3 distributed constellation of 200kW inference nodes in dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbit, providing many gigawatts of low-cost AI compute. It seems we’re not alone! 🙌

For the last several months, we’ve been working on the design of our Starcloud-3 distributed constellation of 200kW inference nodes in dawn-dusk sun-synchronous orbit, providing many gigawatts of low-cost AI compute. It seems we’re not alone! 🙌

Philip Johnston

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Louder for the people at the back! 📢 “AI will be cheaper in space than on Earth in 2-3 years.”

Louder for the people at the back! 📢 “AI will be cheaper in space than on Earth in 2-3 years.”

Philip Johnston

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Starcloud is building data centers in space. Thanks for highlighting our work, World Economic Forum @WEF

Starcloud is building data centers in space. Thanks for highlighting our work, World Economic Forum @WEF

Philip Johnston

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I guess @BlueOrigin is also building data centers in space now! 🤷‍♂️🙌 Jeff Bezos: “You get 8x more energy in space than on Earth for a given area of solar panel.”

I guess @BlueOrigin is also building data centers in space now! 🤷‍♂️🙌 Jeff Bezos: “You get 8x more energy in space than on Earth for a given area of solar panel.”

Philip Johnston

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Thanks for having me on @TBPN to talk about Starcloud’s $170M round at $1.1Bn valuation! 🦄🚀

Thanks for having me on @TBPN to talk about Starcloud’s $170M round at $1.1Bn valuation! 🦄🚀

Philip Johnston

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Alright… I might be tiny bit Kardashev/Dyson-pilled 🤣 Sequoia Capital

Alright… I might be tiny bit Kardashev/Dyson-pilled 🤣 Sequoia Capital

Philip Johnston

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For those who say I never answer whatever is their particular pet peeve on orbital data centers, this is a particularly dense interview covering a wide range of topics in a short time. Thanks for having me SpaceNews to talk about Starcloud and orbital data centers! 🤓

For those who say I never answer whatever is their particular pet peeve on orbital data centers, this is a particularly dense interview covering a wide range of topics in a short time. Thanks for having me SpaceNews to talk about Starcloud and orbital data centers! 🤓

Philip Johnston

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Ben Horowitz always has a few bangers every interview 😂: “One day we’ll look back on this, chuckle nervously, and change the subject.” “Things are always darkest before they go completely dark.” I know these feelings well! 😅 benahorowitz.eth TBPN Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

Ben Horowitz always has a few bangers every interview 😂: “One day we’ll look back on this, chuckle nervously, and change the subject.” “Things are always darkest before they go completely dark.” I know these feelings well! 😅 benahorowitz.eth TBPN Marc Andreessen 🇺🇸

Philip Johnston

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“6 months ago nobody was talking about orbital data centers, what happened?” Elon Musk - “I guess it went viral on X!” Maybe we should have kept our mouths shut a bit longer ! 🤣🤦‍♂️ Peter H. Diamandis, MD

“6 months ago nobody was talking about orbital data centers, what happened?” Elon Musk - “I guess it went viral on X!” Maybe we should have kept our mouths shut a bit longer ! 🤣🤦‍♂️ Peter H. Diamandis, MD

Philip Johnston

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This speech is my second favourite thing to have come from the Artemis 2 mission 🥹🥹🥹

This speech is my second favourite thing to have come from the Artemis 2 mission 🥹🥹🥹

Philip Johnston

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Demis Hassabis doesn’t think the Fermi Paradox implies a high P(Doom)… thoughts anyone? And thanks for humouring me Demis Hassabis! 🙏

Demis Hassabis doesn’t think the Fermi Paradox implies a high P(Doom)… thoughts anyone? And thanks for humouring me Demis Hassabis! 🙏

Philip Johnston

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.@TBPN on data centers in space: 6 months ago: “There’s some @YCombinator co working on it.” Now: “There’s $10Tr of market cap taking it seriously!” @Starcloud_Inc1, @NVIDIA, Google, SpaceX

.@TBPN on data centers in space: 6 months ago: “There’s some @YCombinator co working on it.” Now: “There’s $10Tr of market cap taking it seriously!” @Starcloud_Inc1, @NVIDIA, Google, SpaceX

Philip Johnston

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