Armada makes movable data centers.

The startup's modular systems are used for AI computing in remote locations.

Some as small as a suitcase, others the size of shipping containers.

CEO and co-founder Dan Wright calls Armada the quote, hyper-scaler for the edge.

Today is where there's a ton of data being generated on oil rigs, mines, battleships,

terabytes of data every day on every one of those assets. And there's no good way to process

that data in a way that's real-time, secure at the edge. And so we're enabling that.

Armada Counts Founders Fund, Lux Capital and Microsoft among its investors. It recently raised another

$131 million. It all started, though, with a close collaboration with SpaceX, using the Starlink

broadband network for connectivity. Starlink, most people don't know, didn't exist until it launched

in public beta in November of 2020, and now they're in well over 140 countries all over the world.

So increasingly we're seeing that used as a primary,

but then what a lot of our customers want is they want to optimize multiple forms of connectivity.

And so we allow multiple types of Leo and geo-satellite connectivity,

as well as we can use fiber.

On this episode, Armada's Dan Wright on edge computing, partnerships with energy producers,

and the AI arms race between China and the U.S.

I'm Morgan Brennan, and this is Manifest Space.

Joining me now, Armada's CEO and co-founder Dan Wright.

Dan, it's great to speak with you today.

Thanks for having me, Morgan.

So let's start with, let's start with the basics.

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