{"podcast":{"title":"Training Data","slug":"training-data","podcast_index_feed_id":null,"rss_url":"https://feeds.megaphone.fm/trainingdata","website_url":"https://www.sequoiacap.com/","image_url":"https://megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/8ca8a61c-08b4-11ef-97ab-9fe273d59030/image/4a16fd33b06708003827556209cd42b7.png?ixlib=rails-4.3.1&max-w=3000&max-h=3000&fit=crop&auto=format,compress","author":"Sequoia Capital","episode_count":104,"summary":"Join us as we train our neural nets on the theme of the century: AI. Sonya Huang, Pat Grady and more Sequoia Capital partners host conversations with leading AI builders and researchers to ask critical questions and develop a deeper understanding of the evolving technologies—and their implications for technology, business and society. The content of this podcast does not constitute investment advice, an offer to provide investment advisory services, or an offer to sell or solicitation of an offer to buy an interest in any investment fund.","last_synced_at":"2026-08-02T15:06:49.231983+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/training-data"},"episode":{"title":"Greetings, Earthlings: Philip Johnston of Starcloud on Data Centers in Space","slug":"greetings-earthlings-philip-johnston-of-starcloud-on-data-centers-in-space","published_at":"2026-03-17T09:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/training-data/greetings-earthlings-philip-johnston-of-starcloud-on-data-centers-in-space","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/training-data","url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/CPUAI3959632960.mp3","audio_url":"https://pscrb.fm/rss/p/traffic.megaphone.fm/CPUAI3959632960.mp3","summary":"Philip Johnston, founder and CEO of Starcloud, explains why space will become the primary location for AI compute infrastructure within the next decade. After witnessing SpaceX's massive manufacturing scale at Starbase, Philip realized that declining launch costs would make space-based data centers cheaper than terrestrial ones. He breaks down the physics of heat dissipation in vacuum, the economics of solar power without atmosphere, and why the marginal cost of space infrastructure decreases while Earth-based costs increase. Philip previews a future where close to a trillion dollars per year in CapEx flows to space compute. And, yes, we get his take on aliens. Hosted by: Sonya Huang and Pat Grady, Sequoia Capital.","meta_description":"Philip Johnston, founder and CEO of Starcloud, explains why space will become the primary location for AI compute infrastructure within the next decade. A…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2659,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/training-data/episodes/greetings-earthlings-philip-johnston-of-starcloud-on-data-centers-in-space/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/training-data/greetings-earthlings-philip-johnston-of-starcloud-on-data-centers-in-space.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}