Plots of empty desert could soon be worth more than the most fertile farmland in human history. @CJHandmer ran through the back-of-the-envelope math. 10 acres of solar is enough for 1 MW of H100s. And the FLOPS done by those H100s is roughly equivalent to 1000 human brains. If we build models that match human performance per FLOP, we could produce 100 humans' worth of cognition per acre of solar. And that's just the floor. Today's chips are far less energy-efficient than the brain, so the actual number could be bigger still by >50x. The implied land value is insane. The clear incentive would be to use up almost all the world's land for solar.

Plots of empty desert could soon be worth more than the most fertile farmland in human history. @CJHandmer ran through the back-of-the-envelope math. 10 acres of solar is enough for 1 MW of H100s. And the FLOPS done by those H100s is roughly equivalent to 1000 human brains. If we build models that match human performance per FLOP, we could produce 100 humans' worth of cognition per acre of solar. And that's just the floor. Today's chips are far less energy-efficient than the brain, so the actual number could be bigger still by >50x. The implied land value is insane. The clear incentive would be to use up almost all the world's land for solar.

You know the reason your Stanley or Hydroflask is so good at keeping your water cold is because there's a vacuum inside the walls of the thermos. Heat can't conduct in a vaccum. And "radiated" heat is ineffective at the temperatures processors operate at. This satellite will be like plugging in your gaming PC without a CPU cooler. It'll be dead in minutes.

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To Boldly Go: The Case for Space Datacenters Space DC Total Cost of Ownership Explained. Unpacking constraints from Terrestrial DCs and Chip Production. Space-Earth Parity in the late 2030s, Space DCs could start to be viable even sooner. newsletter.semianalysis.com/…

I’m super excited to share that we have signed a contract with @SpaceX @Starlink to integrate its mini laser terminals onto our satellites for high bandwidth, low latency connectivity!

Starcloud is excited to announce that we will integrate 50 @SpaceX @Starlink Mini Laser terminals across 25 satellites.  Each of the @Starcloud_ satellites will carry two Starlink Mini Laser terminals, and the first hardware is expected on orbit within one year. Starlink Mini Laser terminals, the same laser crosslink technology that SpaceX developed for its Starlink constellation, provide up to 25 Gbps of continuous intersatellite connectivity at distances up to 4,000 km and are capable of higher link speeds at shorter distances. The terminals enable direct optical links between Starcloud satellites and the Starlink constellation using laser light, eliminating the need for Starcloud to send data directly through bandwidth-constrained ground stations.

Starcloud is excited to announce that we will integrate 50 @SpaceX @Starlink Mini Laser terminals across 25 satellites.  Each of the @Starcloud_ satellites will carry two Starlink Mini Laser terminals, and the first hardware is expected on orbit within one year. Starlink Mini Laser terminals, the same laser crosslink technology that SpaceX developed for its Starlink constellation, provide up to 25 Gbps of continuous intersatellite connectivity at distances up to 4,000 km and are capable of higher link speeds at shorter distances. The terminals enable direct optical links between Starcloud satellites and the Starlink constellation using laser light, eliminating the need for Starcloud to send data directly through bandwidth-constrained ground stations.

If it’s really true that @AnthropicAI’s revenue went grew from $30bn last month to $40bn this month, then I don’t know why more people are freaking out about it. This is UN-BE-LIEV-A-BLE 😲🤯 You don’t have to extrapolate this out too far to get to Dyson Spheres! @Starcloud_

Stunning first-sat views from @Starlink launch G10-38 on May 1, deployed from @SpaceX's Falcon rocket. Watch as the Starlink sats cruise over an entire orbit, through sunrise and sunset, and slowly separate from each as they complete their post-launch deployment sequence before beginning orbit raise.  The satellites are stacked like a deck of cards in the rocket, which slowly spins when dispensing to impart a small velocity difference, ensuring deconfliction.   May the @Starlink be with you.

In solidarity with the IRGC, Seattle bombs itself back to the Stone Age. council.seattle.gov/2026/04/…