Ben Nowack ☀️🌎🪞
@bennbuilds
sunlight salesman
Announcing our $20M Series A led by @Lux_Capital with participation from @sequoia and @starship_vc. We truly couldn’t be building this with better partners. The sun will power ~everything until we outgrow this solar system, and we are taking the first practical steps to…
"We project that 2GW and 5GW data centers will be needed to develop single advanced AI models for Anthropic in 2027 and 2028, respectively. With several other U.S. companies developing frontier AI models, we expect total frontier AI training demands in America to reach 20-25GW in…
New Anthropic report: Build AI in America. We outline what it will take to ensure America has the energy and infrastructure it needs to maintain its leadership in AI.
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The math is obvious and unequivocal: ~100% of energy over time comes from the Sun. Everything else is a rounding error.
The new SaaS is "Sunlight as a Service". I dove into this awesome interview by @ti_morse, speaking with @bennbuilds, the co-founder of @reflectorbital on the. Let's break down this "Dyson sphere company" 🌎 ✅ There is a vast energy potential. The sun produces about 5,000 times…
My first interview with Ben Nowack (@bennbuilds) co-founder of Reflect Orbital Reflect is launching mirrors into space to sell sunlight after dark. 0:29 Moving sunlight 3:04 Building hard things 5:01 Making bombs as a kid 6:46 Building RC planes 8:32 Getting materials from the…
Maximum conversion of energy into intelligence. Thats how we win.
Innovate to replace the unscalable (college/textbooks/human doctors,nurses,workers) with the scalable (AI/youtube/automation) at any commercially viable opportunity.
Technologists make prices go down, while the government makes prices go up.
The Fourier Transform, explained in one sentence by Stuart Riffle. [bityl.co/NGqj]
We have a lot of growing to do!
It is hard to get your head around how stupendously large an electricity user a 2-5 gigawatt data center represents. A 5 gigawatt data center consumes on the order of 40 million megawatt-hours of electricity per year, as much electricity as the ENTIRE STATE of Nevada or Kansas!
Can we bring this energy to solar too please?
The United States CREATED the oil industry, and today, we’re LEADING it.
Glad it was helpful!
No freaking way @bennbuilds was the one behind RCMotorsect! When I was really getting into ROVs in middle school, his video was one of my references for my first PVC/bilge pump ROV builds!
Look at Ben man. So inspirational @bennbuilds
Thought this would be fun - I created a montage of a bunch of Ben’s builds over the years Compressed ~50 YouTube vids into 42 seconds
This video is a vibe ☀️ NEVER BET AGAINST TRUE BUILDERS! I’m lucky to work with @bennbuilds and the team at @reflectorbital Before Reflect, Ben documented building everything from a fusion reactor to a rocket engine Vid by @ti_morse
Ok now this is a great edit!
Thought this would be fun - I created a montage of a bunch of Ben’s builds over the years Compressed ~50 YouTube vids into 42 seconds
Went deep on this one!
My first interview with Ben Nowack (@bennbuilds) co-founder of Reflect Orbital Reflect is launching mirrors into space to sell sunlight after dark. 0:29 Moving sunlight 3:04 Building hard things 5:01 Making bombs as a kid 6:46 Building RC planes 8:32 Getting materials from the…
From a volume perspective too - If caiso has 55GW of capacity and I want to build ~60GW of datacenters I’m going to build my own “grid” regardless so might as well take full ownership and build it from scratch.
This is not sustainable. I predict instead DCs will build their own cheaper, more reliable power plants, utilities will then purchase access to them on terms favorable to the DC operators. Why? The net present economic value of the marginal MWh is far far higher for AI…
It's that time of year! Come say hi if you're at @OpenSauceLive !
Our avionics team is growing quickly and charting new courses. Want in on the journey? We're hiring! Explore open roles and apply today: reflectorbital.com/careers
We live in a 3D world and most play in 2D
Drones being used to indicate exit for an event in Osaka, Japan