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Alexandr (Alex) Wang

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1582 total appearances

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Podcast Appearances

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

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

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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.

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

Yeah, they're all coal, correct?

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

Yeah, it's just tons of coal.

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

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

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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.

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

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

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

And then in China, it's straight up.

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

So that's the first thing.

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

We need drastic action.

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

The administration has the National Energy Dominance Council.

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

We've sat down with them a few times.

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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.

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

That's the first thing.

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

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

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

And that's a major strategic risk.

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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.

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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.

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

The sophistication of these cyber attacks sometimes is so stupid.

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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.

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