Kardashev scaling before it was cool CEO @ethosspace Chair @SpaceSRM
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Who's making the Kardashev run in less than 12 parsecs? We're here to help! Today launching Ethos Space Resources as a YC Company (S 26)
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The Moon has always been the answer.
Brogan and I on exponential scaling of data centers in space.
Important stuff. The correct arc of scaling beyond Earth.
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For those unaware, SpaceX has already shifted focus to building a self-growing city on the Moon, as we can potentially achieve that in less than 10 years, whereas Mars would take 20+ years.
The mission of SpaceX remains the same: extend consciousness and life as we know it to the stars.
It is only possible to travel to Mars when the planets align every 26 months (six month trip time), whereas we can launch to the Moon every 10 days (2 day trip time). This means we can iterate much faster to complete a Moon city than a Mars city.
That said, SpaceX will also strive to build a Mars city and begin doing so in about 5 to 7 years, but the overriding priority is securing the future of civilization and the Moon is faster.
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Starship could deliver 100GW/year to high Earth orbit within 4 to 5 years if we can solve the other parts of the equation.
100TW/year is possible from a lunar base producing solar-powered AI satellites locally and accelerating them to escape velocity with a mass driver.
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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.
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We've dropped two new reports on our website:
1. Lunar critical minerals (a balanced take) 💎
2. Resources of Mercury 😲
Check them out!
Again, dust from plume surface interactions would be consistent with LiDAR failure. Wouldn’t happen with a landing pad.
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Signal noise and distortion of the laser altimeter during the final phase of descent sure sounds a lot like plume-surface interactions. Wouldn't happen with a landing pad.
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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.
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We are excited and honored to be part of ARIA's "Exploring Climate Cooling" program.
Our team has been awarded: £400k over 15 months to work with Cornell University, National Center for Atmospheric Research, University of Nottingham, Redwire, & JPL
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As energy demand growth for compute goes vertical, it makes all the sense in the solar system to drive as much of that growth as possible outside Earth's biosphere.
There is huge opportunity in building compute on the Moon. Not flying computers to space, but building compute infrastructure from the Silicon on up.
It's an infrastructure play, and the payoff is infinite.
Eric Schmidt testified the same. Data centers will go from 3% now to 99% 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐨𝐭𝐚𝐥 𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐭𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐮𝐦𝐩𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, or a doubling from where we are today.
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Regolith covers the Moon (42%O, 21%Si, 14%Al). This is what's easy to get at, here's the tech ladder:
1) Landing pad (rock)
2) Rocket propellant (oxygen)
3) Structures and conductors (aluminum)
4) Power and compute (silicon)
palladiummag.com/2025/04/18/…
