Dan Wright

Co-Founder and CEO at @armada_ai

[Dan Wright @danwrightSF]

Three years ago, @armada_ai was more conviction than company.

We believed AI only matters if it can operate in the real world—at the edge—where data, energy, and the most important problems live.

Three years in, that conviction is now reality.

Our Galleon modular AI factories are operating in the most demanding environments on the planet—from Arctic winters in Alaska to scorching summers in Saudi Arabia to the middle of the ocean. Our platform, AEP, brings full-stack connectivity, compute, and real-world AI to move from data to action in real time, anywhere. Our team, customers, and investors—the Armada—are solving critical problems that impact billions of dollars and human lives when seconds matter most.

Three years down, and we're not stopping until the digital divide is bridged and we've connected every corner of the planet and space.

Distributed intelligence is here. We're just getting started.

[Atoms Not Bits @AtomsNotBits]

America must stockpile compute for the new era of national security.

Armada just secured $230M to help build that compute stockpile, developing modular edge data centers for critical infrastructure and remote environments. U.S. Navy ships, oil rigs, remote mines, manufacturing facilities, and critical infrastructure sites are becoming the front lines of data generation, where 75% of data is now being generated.

Our interview with Armada CEO @danwrightSF breaks down the rise of hyperscaler infrastructure at the edge and why decentralized compute is becoming one of the most important strategic assets.

[Dan Wright @danwrightSF]

From rack resiliency to node redundancy: America's warfighters and their allies no longer have to drown in data.

Thank you @JohnSewardDC @WashTimes for the conversation with @Tyler_Sweatt and I about how @armada_ai and @SecondFront deliver AI with speed, scale and sovereignty:

https://t.co/Zdq6ARTx1l

[Dan Wright @danwrightSF]

Cutting to the core of what we're building at @armada_ai, @Deptula_David hits on a key reason why we're accelerating rollout of our Galleons with continuous manufacturing this summer:

https://t.co/mc9nSPQ1fQ

[U.S. Soccer Men's National Team @USMNT]

ALREADY A GOAL AND AN ASSIST FOR PULISIC!

#USMNT x @VW

[Morgan Brennan @MorganLBrennan]

How policy is playing into this convergence of tech and industrialization #RNEF

[Brad Gerstner @altcap]

A small group of activists shut down clean nuclear power - and now they are trying to do the same to data centers. It would plunge the country into a recession, high unemployment & risk our national security to China. 🇺🇸

[Suffiyan Malik @suffiyanmalikk]

Dropping next week, special edition of @WeThe_Builders episodes at @RonaldReagan National Economic Forum.

Interviews featuring:

- Brian Hooks, CEO of @StandTogether and President of @ckochfoundation - deploying $1B/year through venture philanthropy to solve critical societal problems

- Dan Wright (@danwrightSF), Cofounder and CEO of @armada_ai - $2B neo-hyperscaler cloud on the edge for AI era

- Ian Cinnamon (@IanCinnamon ), Cofounder and CEO of Apex Space - $1B satellite platform to scale satellite manufacturing across difference use cases, big news dropping

- David Bahnsen (@DavidBahnsen), Founder and CIO of @TheBahnsenGroup - $9.9B AUM wealth management firm

Special thank you to @danrothschild, @ReaganInstitute team and @invariant team for having me and for putting on an incredible event featuring keynotes and talks from titans of industry and government including Jamie Dimon (CEO @jpmorgan), @SecScottBessent, @arjunsethi, @SteveForbesCEO, @BrookeLRollins

[Shyam Sankar @ssankar]

Jevons paradox playing out in real time.

Cheaper technology is creating more demand and more jobs.

https://t.co/aTSZe409yr

[Dan Wright @danwrightSF]

“Progress is not foreordained.”

President Reagan said this in 1988, and it still holds true today. The question for this generation of Americans is whether we can reindustrialize fast enough to win the AI race.

I was honored to join @RepArrington, @_brianpotter, and @MorganLBrennan at the Reagan National Economic Forum to discuss what it will take. As Rep. Arrington put it, moving with speed is essential to winning the battle for global leadership.

In the current AI super-cycle, the market is shifting from training frontier models to deploying them for inference, fine-tuning, and real-world workloads at scale. This requires a different kind of infrastructure: modular, rapidly deployable, sovereign, and able to travel to where power and data already exist.

That’s why Armada is beginning continuous manufacturing of Galleon modular data centers at our Galleon Forge One facility this summer. The next phase of AI requires industrial-scale execution. We are building the infrastructure America needs to win.

@ReaganInstitute

[Sinan Kanatsiz @SinanKanatsiz]

@danwrightSF @IMA_Network @AtomsNotBits

[Department of War CTO @DoWCTO]

Secretary of War Pete Hegseth has approved the second round of appointments to the recently established Science, Technology and Innovation Board (STIB), bringing the newly unified advisory body to a total of 33 members.

By bringing together top-tier talent that combines scientific and technical rigor with private-sector agility, the STIB serves as a single, unified voice for innovation. This newly integrated board replaces competing recommendations with fast, coherent guidance to support and equip the Joint Force.

STIB Members:
• Dr. Mark Albrecht, Ph.D.
• Dr. Michael R. Anastasio, Ph.D.
• Dr. John W. Betz, Ph.D.
• Mr. Alec M. Bierbauer
• Colonel Gregory L. Bowman, U.S. Army (Ret.)
• Dr. Gary D. Butler, Ph.D.
• Dr. Victoria Coleman, Ph.D.
• Mr. Angus Davis
• Dr. Kelvin K. Droegemeier, Ph.D.
• Commander James Galambos, U.S. Navy (Ret.), Ph.D.
• The Honorable James F. Geurts
• The Honorable James P. Gfrerer
• Mr. Kellen Giuda
• Captain James R. Gosier, U.S. Navy (Ret.)
• Mr. John Hering
• Dr. Alicia Jackson, Ph.D.
• Mr. Alex Jacobson
• Colonel Daniel Javorsek, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), Ph.D.
• Colonel Bruce D. Jette, U.S. Army (Ret.), Ph.D.
• Lieutenant Colonel Robert F. Lehman, U.S. Marine Corps (Ret.)
• Mr. Thomas D. Lehrman, J.D.
• Mr. Shaun Maguire
• The Honorable Christopher C. Miller
• Mr. Thomas F. Mooney
• Dr. Milan Nikolich, Ph.D.
• The Honorable David L. Norquist
• Mr. Vayl Oxford
• Mr. John D. Robusto
• Mr. Joshua Steinman
• Lieutenant Colonel Bradford C. Tousley, U.S. Army (Ret.), Ph.D.
• Dr. James Trebes, Ph.D.
• Dr. Steven H. Walker, Ph.D.
• Captain Bryant T. Wysocki, U.S. Air Force (Ret.), Ph.D.

[sourcery @sourceryy]

"I am very grateful that SpaceX is an American company."

@armada_ai CEO @danwrightSF says Starlink and Starshield give America an "unfair advantage."

"Perfect internet all the time—all that does for us is give us more use cases that we can unlock."

[Dan Wright @danwrightSF]

Strong start to the week catching up with @MorganLBrennan
on @CNBCMorningCall.

Armada is honored to be included in this year’s CNBC Disruptor 50 list.

As the AI super-cycle shifts to fine-tuning and inference, we are scaling with our customers globally to meet demand and solve their most critical problems at the edge.

[Morning Call @CNBCMorningCall]

.@danwrightSF of @armada_ai discusses modular AI data centers, Starlink enabled connectivity and how edge infrastructure could accelerate the global AI race.

$NVDA $MSFT $AMZN $GOOGL $TSLA

https://t.co/3Uhz4jWLep

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

“Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends.”

May we always live worthy of their sacrifice, honor their memory, and never forget the brave Americans who paid the ultimate price.

[Dan Wright @danwrightSF]

On Memorial Day, I remember my grandfather. Bill Wright's ship was struck by a kamikaze in WWII. He survived. But it changed our whole family, the same way so many families’ lives have been changed.

This year I also want to recognize the veterans now at Armada. Heroes who deployed overseas multiple times, operated a nuclear reactor at sea, reorganized the Navy's helicopter community during the global war on terror, led Coast Guard unmanned aircraft systems programs, trained partner nation troops in survival skills, managed payroll for thousands of Marines and so much more.

They carry that same sense of duty into their work here. Leaning forward, taking ownership, helping build the infrastructure the DoW needs to operate as an AI-first warfighting force.

We will never forget their courage and that of thousands of others that makes our freedom possible.

[Ti Morse @ti_morse]

My first interview with US Secretary of Energy @SecretaryWright and @ScottNolan, Founder of @GeneralMatter.

This conversation is on nuclear and how we're going to power the AI data center buildout.

0:07 Powering the AI data center boom
3:25 Biggest energy bottlenecks over the next five years
6:03 Ramping power generation before we have SMRs
16:06 Bridging the nuclear transition with natural gas
21:39 What if we’re underestimating how much power we’ll need for AI
27:10 Staying ahead of China
34:07 Why AI is hated + the fear of AI data centers driving up electricity prices
40:21 Increasing baseload capacity
42:50 Building hundreds of gigawatts by 2050
49:37 Copying the SpaceX playbook
53:14 Incentivizing founders to build ahead of demand
59:03 “If you want to build big things in America, come talk to the government”

[Armada @armada_ai]

Distributed compute needs to be deployed with speed, scale, and sovereignty.

@danwrightSF joined @technology this week to talk about Galleon Forge One, our Series B, and the infrastructure buildout required to meet growing demand for inference, fine-tuning, and distributed model deployment at scale.

The next wave of compute will not live only in centralized clouds. It will need to be deployed where land, energy, and data already exist.

That is what Armada was built for. That is what Galleon delivers.

[U.S. CTO Ethan Klein @USCTO47]

The new ExportAI Initiative from @EximBankUS is going to TURBOCHARGE American AI Exports worldwide by leveraging American financing to:
✅ Deploy AI at scale
✅ Open new markets
✅ Accelerate deals

American technology. American equipment. American workers.

[U.S. Export-Import Bank @EximBankUS]

https://t.co/VjTXDguMzB