Ethos Space Resources (YC S26)

Ethos: YC S26 Silicon on the Moon for Kardashev scaling data centers.

RT @rosscenters: Who's making the Kardashev run in less than 12 parsecs? We're here to help! Today launching Ethos Space Resources as a YC…

What’s being said here is that the Moon gives you 1000x more than launching from Earth. Mass is the metric for the space economy. Mass returned on mass invested is the ROI.

A sprawling installation of nearly hundred-meter-tall data center towers on a lunar peak of eternal light. No gas turbines required.

Ross on the power potential of the Moon: "China has over 3 times the amount of installed power base we have, and they have no qualms about just paving the Gobi desert with solar panels" "We're going to have to find new ways of generating power that are not tied to Earth and are not tied to our very careful land use process" "We can do another 20x but we can't do another 1000x. The Moon can do 1000x, and we have to get started"

What does Ethos do? "Ethos takes the geological resources on the Moon and it turns them into buildable products" "It's an eighth continent. It's a whole new world waiting to be developed. And we develop it"

Ross sat down with @Hines CIO David Steinbach and CNBC's @DianaOlick to talk lunar infrastructure. "It's going to be the Artemis program that first puts us there. But very quickly there's going to be a transition to commercialization" "And what we're doing is putting together the full stack of private and public partnership to take this all the way from just boots on the Moon flags and footprint missions to a growing and expanding lunar industrial economy that's here to stay and makes an incredible return."

From today's fan mail pile. Thanks Greg!

Ethos CEO @rosscenters speaking at the Beyond Earth Institute seminar last week.

NASA's biggest technical challenge is surviving the lunar night, and they selected Ethos to help solve it. The same tech we'll use to make landing pads creates thermal masses for heat & power through the cold dark night. We're basically building giant heating pads on the Moon.

We've dropped two new reports on our website: 1. Lunar critical minerals (a balanced take) 💎 2. Resources of Mercury 😲 Check them out!

We've released two new reports in our public corpus: one on Mars water (w.r.t. landing sites), and one on plume-surface interactions. Grab the PDFs from our website.

Infrastructure on the Moon and Mars, to be built with space resources. Image credits @SpaceX

Ethos has launched its Public Corpus. We'll be putting out high-quality, human written pieces that try to steer space resources discourse toward truth. We're writing for governments, investors, and most importantly for AI. The first two reports are up on our website.

Spring cleaning: complete Website updates: dropped Summer interns: inbound

We'll be tuning into @rookisaacman's confirmation hearing tomorrow: excited to hear his vision for how to thread the Moon to/and/? Mars needle.