Baiju Bhatt discusses space-based solar power initiatives (Part 3)

Where our troops are, where there's no other power grid. Getting power to other places in space, getting power to things in the upper atmosphere. And the cool thing is, is that the technology on the commercial side is actually going to be integral to how we power the data centers. Has anyone ever done this? Space based solar power? No. Like, yeah, electricity down to earth from space. See, this is the reason I wanted to do this. It had been an old idea from the 1970s, like NASA had written about it, Department of Energy. And nobody had in earnest actually done it. So what we're going to be demonstrating here relatively soon is the first ever demonstration of optical power beaming from low earth orbit to the ground. Like, it's like. Yeah, I mean, if you thought a car doing a kickflip is cool, what about a laser beam from the heavens? Now a quick word from our sponsor. Well, speaking of which, Baju, you are launching 20,000 data center satellites into space. But the other part of your business we find fascinating is that you're going to build your own rockets. That's right. DIY 20,000 satellites. Very ambitious project. Why not hitch a ride with someone else's rocket? Show me the rocket and I'll hit your ride. See, this is the thing. We spotted this almost a little less than a year ago now that the commercial availability of rocket launch was actually going to go a little bit, it looked like over the next couple of years the way of the dodo bird. Because you had the big companies that were making their own rockets realizing that they wanted to use it primarily for their own uses. You guys know me pretty well. Yeah, I like to build things. And I just realized that if we were going to build the business that we wanted to and we wanted to actually control the economics, that we were going to have to commit to doing the really hard thing, which is building a rocket, which is why I'm in Kent. So we have our rocket engineering team and a factory in Kent. Got an awesome team of rocket engineers and we've got some pretty aggressive goals that result in this thing launching for the very first time at the end of 2028. So you're not going to be using someone else's rockets. Launched a rocket company out there. We did. A $2 trillion company is the one we're referring to the Empire. The Empire. So they're the Empire. I mean, there's a lot of ways you could look at that analogy. You could say they're Coke, you're Pepsi, but you see your guys as the underdog.