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Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
Lfgggggggg
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
Big AI datacenters take years and fight local opposition. This YC startup says it can deploy one in 4 weeks on solar.
If inference moves to small, off-grid sites, power stops being the bottleneck.
Would you run AI off the grid?
teapawt.org/_LiquidEnergy/status/2…
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
Hey @grok, is this economically feasible using only solar power and without water for cooling?
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
👇👀 sounds like a mini hard @elonmusk @SpaceX @nextbigfuture @CernBasher @thejefflutz @herbertong @JTLonsdale @JensenHuang @pmarca
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
Here’s the thing about technology.
People just keep making it better.
And better and better and better and better and better and better and…
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
Finally some deep tech stuff for data centers.
@sidravi_ and team LFG!!
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
just unbelievable growth over the past year. and they’re only getting started. lfg!
(velocity fund did the pre seed, and we’re continuing to partner with visionary founders tackling the worlds most complex problems. if you are building in deep tech and want to chat, my dms are always open!)
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
Sunlight in, tokens out. No interconnect queue.
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
So excited to see @_LiquidEnergy take off! Incredible innovation and hard work, @sidravi_ @SajKhosa @ArshSek @romistaro. So proud of you all!
Solar in, tokens out!! Let’s goooo! 🔥
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
This is pretty cool. Modular, self sustaining data centers will be HUGE. Awesome!
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
YC F26 的 Liquid Energy 放出 NanoDC：太阳能自供电的 AI 推理数据中心。官方号北京时间 11 月 6 日 06:42 发帖。
官方规格：
・工厂预制，运到现场约 30 分钟开机；官方称全球任意地点约 4 周可部署
・自带太阳能板（手风琴式展开）和电池，专利高密度风冷，联网走 Starlink
・不接电网、不接水、不做土建；官方称可躲开并网排队、场地许可和供应链卡住
・本月起首批上线，2027 年起计划出货数千台
官方帖写，未来 4 年约 11 万亿美元 AI 算力投资里大部分是推理，又卡在并网和场地。我觉得 NanoDC 的卖点是绕开电网排队，不是再堆一个大园区。单机算力、电费和冷却实测官方帖都没给，先当早期硬件看，别把「30 分钟开机」直接当成可对标超大规模园区。
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
A five-person startup from Waterloo already has 20 container-sized AI data centers that run with no grid connection and no cooling water.
Liquid Energy, from YC’s F26 batch, showed off NanoDC yesterday: GPUs, solar panels, batteries, cooling and networking packed into one factory-built unit that arrives on a truck. It computes on sunlight by day and batteries at night, deploys in 4 weeks and, by the company’s own numbers, costs 60% less to deploy than a conventional data center. They build 2 MW of capacity a month today and aim for 20 MW a month within a year. In a Central European November, granted, it would mostly be a very expensive power bank.
The clear winners are inference providers. A model’s answer is a few kilobytes of text, so a remote link in the middle of a field handles it fine, and the fat pipes only matter for training. The loser is the grid interconnection queue where conventional projects wait for years. If you build on inference, ask your provider less about the GPU brand and more about how many hours the batteries last after three cloudy days in a row.
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
Der Modulare Rechenzentrums-Ansatz im Containergrößen-Prinzip wurde ja bereits schon von diversen Herstellern, zuletzt von NVIDIA mit NVIDIA DSX Pod vorgestellt. Der Ansatz der auf komplette Autonomie von Wasser und Energie, sowie Netzanschluss (durch Starlink-Verbindung) setzt ist wirklich nochmals neu gedacht.
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
Amazing to see a replacement for traditional DCs that doesn't use massive amounts of freshwater.
From data centers to compute farms, just crazy.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
For whom is this for...is it priced so normal people can have it or for the SME or enterprise that need....
It's gonna be crazy...
Love this..📈
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
More than 30% of the land in the US is suitable for NanoDc, which is over 100 Terawatts of solar power.
Just sayin
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
Orbital Drone Testing
Hard Tech Headlines:
- @Firestorm_Labs, the forward-deployed manufacturing firm, has secured a CRADA with the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of War for Materiel Readiness and Fleet Readiness Center East. The agreement will support testing of the Department of War’s Digital Manufacturing Exchange, a system designed to securely share manufacturing designs between government, industry, and allies. The San Diego startup enables critical defense manufacturing at the edge through deployable factories.
- @agilityrobotics has gone public, becoming the first humanoid robotics company listed on Nasdaq. The company has deployed humanoid robots across automotive, logistics, and consumer manufacturing.
- Algoma Steel and Stigterstaal Canada have secured a C$182M deal to supply steel for six multi-purpose icebreakers being built for the Canadian Coast Guard.
- Rare Earths Norway is investing $28M to build a rare earth processing pilot plant near Europe's largest documented rare earth deposit in Norway.
- @harbingermotors has secured a $240M Series D. The startup develops medium-duty electric trucks, autonomous driving technology, and unmanned ground vehicles for defense. The company has also secured an order for 2,000 electric trucks from FedEx.
- @Redwire has secured a $20M DARPA contract to test an orbital drone designed to operate in very low Earth orbit.
- @SkydioHQ has secured a $1.2B investment from Axon, a leading law enforcement technology company.
- @polemos_inc has come out of stealth. The YC startup is developing autonomous precision-strike weapons.
- @_LiquidEnergy has launched out of stealth. The YC startup is developing deployable, solar-powered data centers that are manufactured in factories and shipped directly to deployment sites.
@ServeRobotics has launched a new business arm focused on robot connectivity and robotics training data, targeting construction, mining, autonomous trucking, and delivery robotics.
- @anduriltech is supporting critical drone defense on NATO's eastern flank in Latvia, integrating its Lattice software with Origin Robotics' autonomous BLAZE interceptor, designed to destroy hostile drones and loitering munitions.
- @shieldaitech has agreed to acquire Echodyne Corp. for $5.3B, one of the world’s leading radar companies serving defense and commercial markets.
- @asim_group has launched out of YC. The startup is developing robotic testing and benchmarking systems, pushing robots to their limits to identify critical failures for robotics companies.
- @IBM, @AMD, and Oak Ridge National Laboratory have launched a new platform to detect and correct errors in quantum computers, combining quantum processors with high-performance computing infrastructure.
ALT Source: IBM
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
Congratulations and good luck to Sid Ravikumar.
Great to see next generation of Tamil entrepreneurs step up and succeed!
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
Imagine this deployed along with a solution like Reflect Orbital. Now you have a datacenter with 24*7 access to the Sun as long as cloud cover is minimal.
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.
Liquid Energy (YC F26) retweeted
@sidravi_ @SajKhosa @ArshSek are some of my best friends. And those guys will be building a multi billion dollar company or die trying. I know it.
We built a new type of datacenter for AI inference. We call it NanoDC.
NanoDC is a solar-powered autonomous datacenter that can be deployed anywhere on the planet in 4 weeks.
11 Trillion will be invested in AI compute over the next 4 years. Most of this will be for inference and most of it will be severely delayed: stuck in grid interconnect queues, site permits, or supply chain issues. NanoDC sidesteps these issues completely.
NanoDC is built rapidly at a factory and shipped to the site ready to be turned on in 30 minutes. It generates its own power with solar and batteries. You open the door and the solar panels fold-out like an accordion. The compute is cooled with patent-pending high-density air cooling. It connects to the internet via Starlink.
No construction. No grid interconnect. No Water supply.
It never waits for transformers and turbine generators either.
Getting more compute is as easy as dropping more units and turning them on.
The first units will be live this month. Thousands will be shipping starting 2027.
Sunlight in. Tokens out.