Is there a problem if we blur the distinctions between the two? Is- are there regulatory issues? What, what sort of policies are we abutting up against if a company is designated as being in the space sector or not? We do have a lawyer here who might be able to answer this.

I wake up and I see regulatory issues is the, is the facetious answer to part of that question.

But here's what I would say.

I actually think that we think of ourselves as a data center company.

You wanna talk about blurring the lines.

If you focus on it from a business perspective, whether that customer is a government customer or a commercial customer, what they care about is resilient, reliable compute that is, that they're able to purchase at market competitive rates.

Whether that compute is being done in space or whether it's being done in northern Virginia or East Texas is really secondary to the customer's concern in all of those cases.

So you really gotta go to that next level down to r- to be able to figure out what sort of a more detailed answer is.

And this would be somewhat of a solution, right? Are there any drawbacks that you see when comparing the two? And have any brought these drawbacks to your all's attention? What are the haters saying, I guess?

The haters are saying quite a bit, but to start on sort of the positive, yeah, I mean, we're very cognizant of the fact that there is pushback on terrestrial data centers.

To be clear, I don't think that we think or anybody thinks that orbital data centers in the near term are going to replace terrestrial data centers.

We think...

That infrastructure build-out is underway, will continue, and will continue quite robustly.

We view this as an opportunity to create another avenue for compute in orbit that is resilient, that may at a minimum serve as an option to have ongoing computing the events of terrestrial catastrophe, terrestrial disasters, but ultimately provide its own separate independent means of very large scale, in our case, a 20 gigawatt data center in orbit.

Number one, on the hater side, if you're doing something right, you're going to get a lot of people coming out of the woodwork.

I'm just curious, and you don't have to speak for him by any sake, but for you, I mean, what drew you to this opportunity that made you want to stop what you were doing and start building data centers in space, which I'm sure you didn't even think was a possibility when you graduated college?