Home for the Holidays! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OeBT8YQZh4k

Orbital Data Centers Will "Bypass Earth-Based" Constraints

Last week, readers were briefed on the emerging theme of data centers in low Earth orbit, a concept now openly discussed by Elon Musk, Jensen Huang, Jeff Bezos, and Sam Altman, as energy availability and infrastructure constraints on land increasingly emerge as major bottlenecks to data center buildouts through the end of this decade and well into the 2030s.

Nvidia-backed startup Starcloud has released a white paper outlining a case for operating a constellation of artificial intelligence data centers in space as a practical solution to Earth's looming power crunch, cooling woes, and permitting land constraints.

Terrestrial data center projects will reach capacity limits as AI workloads scale to multi-gigawatt levels, while electricity demand and grid bottlenecks worsen over the next several years. Orbital data centers aim to bypass these constraints by using near-continuous, high-intensity solar power, passive radiative cooling to deep space, and modular designs that scale quickly, launched into orbit via SpaceX rockets.

"Orbital data centers can leverage lower cooling costs using passive radiative cooling in space to directly achieve low coolant temperatures. Perhaps most importantly, they can be scaled almost indefinitely without the physical or permitting constraints faced on Earth, using modularity to deploy them rapidly," Starcloud wrote in the report.

Starcloud continued, "With new, reusable, cost-effective heavy-lift launch vehicles set to enter service, combined with the proliferation of in-orbit networking, the timing for this opportunity is ideal."

Already, the startup has launched its Starcloud-1 satellite carrying an Nvidia H100 GPU, the most powerful compute chip ever sent into space. Using the H100, Starcloud successfully trained NanoGPT, a lightweight language model, on the complete works of Shakespeare, making it the first AI model trained in space.

https://www.zerohedge.com/ai/orbital-data-centers-will-bypass-earth-based-constraints

"“Anyone who doubts that this nation building and police activity has not become real and very effective right here in the United States need only visit the area around Fort Bragg to find one of these early paramilitary CIA-oriented specialist, General Tolson, sending his American soldiers out into the countryside with nation-building programs for the citizens of the United States. If such tactics continue, it is possible that an enlargement of such a program could lead to a pacification program of areas of the United States, such as the CIA and the US Army have carried out in Indochina.”

- Col. Fletcher Prouty “The Secret Team” (1972). Prouty served as a liaison officer between the Pentagon and the CIA between 1955 and 1963.

https://open.substack.com/pub/cynthiachung/p/the-enemy-within-a-story-of-the-take?utm_campaign=post-expanded-share&utm_medium=web

Another Kremlin White Hat game-changer that the lamestream media REFUSES to tell you about! https://edwardslavsquat.substack.com/p/russia-expands-biometric-id-system

"Our society has established new social norms that make talking to girls in the wild, or even looking at them, tantamount to a sex crime. Buying a girl a drink at the bar is an imposition, an implicit expectation that she will at the very least say thank you, and this is essentially sexual harassment. As a result of this men do not buy girls drinks anymore."

https://open.substack.com/pub/barsoom/p/the-simp-rapist-complex?r=lp6h7

One of the craziest parts of the Reiner killing is that LA no longer has a homicide division. Because of massive layoffs it’s been rolled into one division called “robbery homocide.”

The bodies laid in the house for five hours because the cops claimed they needed a search warrant even after identifying the dead bodies. And they couldn’t find the coroner.

Keep focusing on Candace because if you actually look at what’s happening, these cities have become third world shit holes. Los Angeles couldn’t find a coroner for one of the most famous people in LA. LA is the only major city in America without a homicide division after laying off 1300 detectives.

🇨🇳 🇹🇼 Chinese scientists simulated the operation of over 1000 jamming devices installed on drones and balloons at an altitude of 20 km to disrupt the operation of Starlink signals over Taiwan.

“No dragon can resist the fascination of riddling talk and of wasting time trying to understand it.” - The Hobbit

All measured earthquakes from 2015 to 2025, visualized using PowerBI.
https://redd.it/1pj0o08
@r_mapporn

"A central theme of my Fields & Energy project is that the foundations of electromagnetism are not forbiddingly complex. With a bit of thought and patience, anyone with a sharp and inquisitive mind can grasp the essentials, no advanced degree required. This discussion with programmer and mathematician Chris Lansdown at the Missing the Mark Podcast drives that point home."
https://aetherczar.substack.com/p/podcast-fields-and-energy#:~:text=A%20central%20theme,that%20point%20home.

📝 ⚓️ Naval Power Projection as We Know Is probably Dead | Patricia Marins

The concept of naval power projection has existed for thousands of years and is studied in every naval academy on the planet.

Just as land doctrines are being completely reshaped by the emergence of drones, the same transformation is occurring at sea.

The revolution in land doctrines has been driven by the war in Ukraine and its advances in drone warfare, while the concept of naval power projection is being redesigned by Chinese technological breakthroughs.

Sea control, a cornerstone of naval power projectionis fundamentally changing with the advent of UUVs, USVs, aerial drones, and long-range hypersonic missiles.

Here are some key points:

- Denying the enemy the use of the sea

You no longer need to deploy large naval forces to blockade ports. A hundred UUVs in the area, combined with a fleet positioned 4,000 km away supported by high-altitude drones ready to acquire targets, is enough to prevent any ship from leaving port.

- Projecting force onto land (e.g., amphibious operations, carrier-based air strikes)

This is perhaps the only aspect that has changed relatively little. Troop landings will still need to occur largely as they have for thousands of years, but aircraft carriers now face threats unlike any seen before due to technological advances. They will no longer operate with the freedom they enjoyed 20 years ago.

- Deterring threats

Under current technologies, deploying large surface ships would be more likely to invite threats than deter them. Such a force would be vulnerable to ambush when approaching areas equipped with anti-ship batteries with ranges of 3,000–5,000 km, not to mention the risk of attacks by hundreds of UUVs. What we saw in Yemenseveral vessels withdrawing from the strait after days of attacks is nothing compared to a coordinated naval ambush against a major power.

- Protecting or blocking sea routes

Again, blocking ocean routes can now be achieved with UUVs and high-altitude drones. Submarines remain an option, but there is no longer a need to deploy large forces. Drones do the job for 5% of the cost.

Today, the traditional concept of a navy capable of power projection is giving way to one of omnipresence: hundreds of UUVs, constant monitoring by high-altitude drones, and operations conducted within the envelope of long-range missiles. Ships can be target from other continent. We never had this technological situation before.

The old idea of global projection, maintaining presence in multiple oceans with advanced logistics (at-sea replenishment, alliances, and distant bases), will increasingly be seen as a massive waste of money and a collection of high-priority targets that would be struck first by missiles.

China’s leading surveillance and target-acquisition drones can currently stay aloft for 10–48 hours. With solid-state batteries, that endurance could reach 2–6 days. Stealth, Operating in large numbers and at high altitude, aided by AI, they can provide global-level monitoring of military vessel movements. Missiles like the DF-26, with a range of 3,000–5,000 km, will receive mid-course guidance from these platforms.
THIS IS THE NEW CONCEPT OF POWER PROJECTION OVER ANY OCEAN.

It doesn’t stop there: the DF-27 hypersonic glide vehicle can reach up to 8,000 km and operate in the same way.

When combined with swarms of high-speed UUVs and aerial drones, this will turn naval warfare into something never seen before. And again, the new solid batteries are key in this revolution. Of before an UUV had speed of 5-6 knots, with solid batteries they can cruise at 10-14 and split at 25 depending of the size.

I’m using the Chinese as reference but soon every navy will operate at the same way.

Naval power projection as we know is probably dead.

📎 Patricia Marins

Heathens judge by phenotype. The 12th century Christian Danish chronicler Saxo Grammaticus wrote of an old king's daughter who he says "men believed" could judge a man's status by his physical appearance. When Olo Vegetus came to her Father's court, with a glare so fierce that brave men cringed beneath it, she acclaimed him "a kingly-born hero". All asked him to remove his hood and when he did they all admired his golden hair but he kept his eyes half closed so as not to terrify them.

Saxo's scepticism was at odds with common beliefs of his forefathers. Anyone could judge the merit of a man by his face alone.

NEW - Nuno Loureiro, nuclear scientist and MIT professor murdered, shot and killed at his home in Boston.

Read here: https://www.disclose.tv/id/romns7ia8e/

@disclosetv

"Heather Cox Richardson is a historian who earned her PhD at Harvard and who now teaches at Boston College — and one of the most influential political writers in America. HCR’s Substack, “Letters from an American”, had seemed like an unlikely hit when it first spun out of a series of Facebook posts late in Trump’s first term. But it has since only grown in influence. It currently ranks #3 on the U.S. Politics bestseller list, by far Substack’s most popular category."

https://open.substack.com/pub/natesilver/p/what-is-heather-cox-richardsonism?r=lp6h7