Robert Ackerman

JUST IN: Elon Musk says his goal is to reach a $10 trillion net worth

Just gave $175K to a founder who cold DM’d. He had bellow 200 followers. Completely unknown to me Who is next? Hit me up.

This 100MW data center in UAE is the largest solar powered datacenter in the world. There are currently 1,300 data centers in the world that are bigger than this one, but this one is the largest solar powered one. That’s 10 square kilometres of solar panels you can see. The datacenter itself is 0.02 square kilometres, so a solar powered datacenter is ~500x larger than a data center using any other form of power. A five hundred times larger site. UAE has some of the highest solar irradiance anywhere on Earth, it is an inhospitable desert. Averaging 9.7 hours of sunlight per day with average irradiance above 2,200 kWh/m^2. If you build this somewhere else, you need more solar panels because your irradiance will almost certainly be lower. Even if the world had an infinite supply of free solar panels, solar power will not be free. Anyone who has ever done major capital projects, who looks at where data centers need to be in the next 5 years and the next 10 years… we know it aint solar. Sorry. You struggle to even build a train track that’s 100 miles long and 10ft wide anywhere in the West, there is zero chance of build 100 square mile solar farms for GW compute. This is why people are talking about space compute. Deploying into space is one strategy to solve the constraints. But there are faster and more scalable strategies, that get you to mass deployment of multi GW data centers. There are strategies that also allow you to power the 10 billion robots and their newtonian actuators, that immediately follow the inference demand cycle. Step back and look at the full cycle of this industrial revolution… There will be billions of chips, but there will be trillions of actuators. This biggest part of this revolution is the embodiment cycle, and it’s big by a factor of 20 or 50x over the stuff that comes before it. There is no analogy in human history for the scale of this economy, of the demand it will place on energy and commodities. The humans own the Earth, and if you exist inside their legal system, they won’t let you turn the surface of their planet into glass. But they do want your chips and your actuators to serve their needs and desires. There is a way to do all of this, and so it will happen.

U.S. Space Force is forecasting its demand by the year 2041 to be 3000 launches/year.

Falcon Heavy’s side boosters have landed on LZ-2 and LZ-40!

I was talking to somebody today about what we think happens when SpaceX, anthropic, and OpenAI IPO, and if that's the top for the AI Craze History says mega IPOs at peak narrative usually mark the top for that theme (AI Here) but rarely for the index (S&P 500) Three of the biggest ever land in the next six months. Float is 3 to 8%, which means the real question is not the IPO itself but the lockup expiry six months later, when insider supply unlocks and price discovery actually begins

ELON MUSK CAN ONLY BE REMOVED FROM SPACEX BOARD OR OFFICER ROLES BY A VOTE OF THE SHARE CLASS HE CONTROLS, IPO FILING SHOWS

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The Space Systems Command, the U.S. Space Force’s acquisition arm, awarded SpaceX a $57 million contract to demonstrate satellite-to-satellite communications using Link-182, a radio-frequency data link standard the Space Force has adopted for its MILNET data relay network. MILNET is a planned constellation of Starshield communications satellites in low Earth orbit built by SpaceX. Link in thread.