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Alexandr (Alex) Wang

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And by the way, it's actually not rocket science why that is.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

If you then break that down to sources of that power in China, it's because coal is like 80% of that.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

Yeah, they're all coal, correct?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

Yeah, it's just tons of coal.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And then we've actually, like, if you look in the U.S.,

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

Renewables have grown a lot, but a lot of it, the reason the overall number is flat is because we're using renewables to replace coal, natural gas, like fossil fuels.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And so when you net it out in the US, we're flat.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And then in China, it's straight up.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

So that's the first thing.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

We need drastic action.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

The administration has the National Energy Dominance Council.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

We've sat down with them a few times.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

We have to take drastic action to enable us to at least start matching their speed of adding energy to the grid and ideally surpass it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

That's the first thing.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

The second thing, like you're talking about, is our grid is extremely antiquated.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

And that's a major strategic risk.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

I don't know what the cause or the source of the outage across Spain was, but some people think it was a foreign actor or some kind of cyber attack of some sort.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

I guarantee you the US energy grid is extremely susceptible to large-scale cyber attacks.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

The sophistication of these cyber attacks sometimes is so stupid.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#208 Alexandr Wang - CEO, Scale AI

If you find the right power plant login terminal to go into, sometimes people don't change the username and password from the default, which is username and password.