What’s the first thing you think when you hear about a start-up launching data centers into outer space?For me, it went like this: “Wait, what? Why outer space…ohhhh wow, the AI energy issue. That’s a massive idea…”Watch this AI with Alec episode with Philip Johnston, co-founder + CEO of Starcloud who is doing exactly that and has “the best space engineers in the world working on it.”1: A bunch of “firsts” coming up“By the end of August we'll have an announcement out about the demonstrator satellite that's going up. So that will have the first terrestrial data center grade GPUs in space. So about a hundred times more powerful GPUs than are currently in orbit.”“We'll be the first to train an AI model in space, the first to run high-power inference, first to do fine tuning of a model in space. Lots of firsts are coming up on that mission.”2: Yes it’s hard but “nothing is against the laws of physics.”“But like we're heading to a world where the launch cost is insignificant compared to everything else. And I think people just have a hard time getting their heads around that. mean, yes, space is hard. Yes, we have to figure out the cooling challenge of building an enormous radiator. Yes, we have to figure out radiation and other things. But all of that, nothing is against the laws of physics. You just have to be really dedicated and figure it out.”3: Swim like a dolphin on the moon? I’m +10000 in.“If you're swimming on the moon, you could basically swim like a dolphin so you can propel yourself out of the water. And like you could actually, you could do the reverse of a dive. Like you could propel yourself so far out of the water you could land on a diving board. Anyway, yeah, you could basically swim like a dolphin on the edge of a crater with earth rising in the background, 24 seven sunlight…”Speaking of dolphins, I might have to finally start watching White Lotus…