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▶ 0:14 · $STARCLOUD · Starcloud's Philip Johnston: Why the Cheapest Compute Will Be in Space
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Starcloud's Philip Johnston: Why the Cheapest Compute Will Be in Space

2026-05-06 · 3 company · 3 thematic
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philip johnston

Co-founder and CEO of Star Cloud, building data centers in space. Led the first deployment (Star Cloud 1) with five Nvidia GPUs including an H100, achieving first model training in space. Filed with SEC for 88,000 satellite constellation delivering 20GW compute capacity.

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“So if you want to build a solar project to power a new data center, you have three main costs. So the first is the cost of permitted land and in fact in North America that's actually the largest cost or can be for most new solar projects.…”
—philip johnston
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