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Today, I want to start with a clip from a recent interview with Elon Musk. Five years from now my prediction is we will

launch and be operating every year more AI in space than the cumulative total on Earth.

Five years from now will have more AI in space than on Earth.

On the face of it, it seems insane.

But I recently met someone who painted a compelling vision of humans as a space-faring race.

Ariel Ekplor.

She founded MIT's Space Exploration Lab. She's an inventor and a space venture

capital investor. Her signature project is self-assembling structures in space. Essentially,

magnetic prefabs that drag themselves into the correct configuration by magnetic attraction

after they've been shot into space.

The videos of this actually working, albeit at small scale, are quite mind-blowing.

And Ariel is planning to use this technology to build livable structures for humans in space.

But I wanted to start with the story of the hour, data centers in space,

which, it turns out, Ariel is already working on. I wanted to know whether AI and space-obsessed

billionaires could have the right idea. The computation will be more efficient outside our

atmosphere. Take a listen.

The first thing I think we should cover for data centers is space is not cold in the way that people think in the context of, oh, therefore it must be easy to cool data center electronics

and space. Unfortunately, it's not that easy. In space, you don't have

convective cooling. So if you think about how data centers are cooled on Earth, you literally,

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