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Meta is shutting down its VR metaverse on June 15th.

NVIDIA just told you terrestrial power grids cannot scale fast enough for what they need to build next. Elon pioneered this idea when SpaceX made orbital infrastructure cheap enough to rethink where compute lives. Now Jensen is hiring an Orbital Datacenter System Architect, and that single job listing reveals more about AI’s energy crisis than any earnings call. The numbers explain why. In NVIDIA’s own hometown of Santa Clara, data centers sit empty because Silicon Valley Power can’t energize them. The utility is spending $450M on upgrades that won’t finish until 2028. Dominion Energy in Virginia is quoting 3 to 7 year wait times for grid connections. Power constraints are adding 24 to 72 months to data center construction timelines across the US. Meanwhile, NVIDIA’s roadmap demands gigawatt-scale facilities. Their new 800 VDC architecture, shipping in 2027, is designed for 1 MW racks. A single GW data center under current power distribution would need 200,000 kg of copper busbar. The physics of terrestrial power delivery are breaking. So what does NVIDIA do? The same thing they did when they couldn’t get enough chips from one foundry. They diversify the supply chain. Except now the supply chain is energy, and the new supplier is the sun, in orbit, running 24/7 at 40% higher irradiance than Earth’s surface with no permitting, no grid interconnection queue, and no NIMBYs. Starcloud (an NVIDIA Inception company, built on SpaceX launch infrastructure and Starlink connectivity) already put an H100 in orbit in November 2025 and trained an LLM on it. Their CEO told CNBC that orbital energy costs will run 10x lower than terrestrial. China’s ADA Space launched 12 satellites in May 2025 to build the Three Body Computing Constellation. Google announced Project Suncatcher for space-based solar with TPUs. NVIDIA is pre-positioning for a world where the bottleneck to selling GPUs is watts. And whoever solves watts at scale wins the next decade of AI.

Lee Child is the man behind the Jack Reacher series. He's sold more than 200 million books, and two of his books were adapted into movies starring Tom Cruise. How popular are his books? In the UK, his series has sold more copies than J.K Rowling did with Harry Potter on Amazon. So at this point, you basically can't talk about contemporary crime and thriller books without talking about Lee Child. This interview is all about how he wrote that Jack Reacher series. To the best of my knowledge, it's the deepest interview he's ever done about his writing process. Timestamps: 0:30 Writing stories in America 7:26 You don't need an outline 12:50 Writing one book per year 17:57 Why the 60s were so creative 18:56 The business of writing 23:05 The key to page-turner books 38:25 How to write good dialogue 43:15 Where to start / end a book 52:18 Writing a violent scene 56:56 Using clothes to reveal character 1:00:43 Why the UK has so many good writers I've shared the full conversation below. If you'd rather watch on YouTube, or listen on Apple / Spotify, check out the links in the first reply tweet. Enjoy!

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