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every year anyone Jake Elder 6Astrid Atkinson 2Varun Sivaram 1Shayle Kann 1Sanjay Vijendran 1Landon Mossberg 1David Yeh 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where SpaceX comes up
AI scaling pathways: on grid, on edge, off grid, off planet
- ▶ 34:17 Jake Elder As you mentioned earlier, you know, total cost-wise, energy's only, you know, five to 15% of a AI-focused data center, and chips and maintenance are the rest, and you're stuck with the same chip cost, whether you put the thing in, in space… 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 35:49 Shayle Kann Elon is saying that XAI, or I guess now, now SpaceX is going to develop a hundred gigawatt solar manufacturing, presumably for space.
- ▶ 40:08 Jake Elder And I do think we'll see a couple, you know, efforts to really build out some infrastructure in space, and we know SpaceX and Google in particular are going to take their shot there.
The case for sodium-ion
- ▶ 33:27 Landon Mossberg So, like, a lot of our, our team come from Tesla and SpaceX.
Financing first-of-a-kind climate assets
Beaming 24/7 solar… from space
- ▶ 31:43 Sanjay Vijendran And we've seen an existence proof now from what, um, SpaceX in particular have done, uh, in the last decade with the Falcon rockets and with, uh, with Starlink and others are doing with constellations like OneWeb.
Advance market commitments to decarbonize heavy industry
- ▶ 10:33 Varun Sivaram Um, most recently, NASA provided these milestone payments for SpaceX.
What the grid can learn from the internet
- ▶ 43:13 Astrid Atkinson It's, it's normal and state-of-the-art for any very large-scale distributed system like Google Systems or Facebooks or Ubers or SpaceX or, you know, any company that deals with, um, highly instrumented systems that have a lot of
- ▶ 57:22 Astrid Atkinson Um, we went from, you know, it taking 10 years to build a rocket and launch it, to SpaceX being able to do that, you know, once every couple weeks, um, and really saw very dramatic innovation once they started to move more quickly.