Ben Horowitz

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15,697 appearances 54 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 4d ago

Ben Horowitz’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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The a16z Show · The Infrastructure Behind the Machine Age · 28 Aug 2026 podcast

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gigawatts. matched

Martin, what's a gigawatt? matched

up and air condition your entire town for a gigawatt. matched

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Oh, there's so many things. matched

Well, there's, first of all, right now, you need humans to build them. matched

So there's just like the regular construction. matched

But much more than that, you need matched

permits, you need access to power that you can plug in. matched

You're doing a combination of you've got to get access to power, which is a massive regulatory bidding struggle. matched

There's very limited amounts and things you can tap into in terms of natural gas, power grids, what have you. matched

But then you also have to build your own power. matched

And guess what? matched

We've got shortages of transformers and turbines and everything that goes into that. matched

So it's just, you know, like, you've got to get all that stuff. matched

This is not a software problem. matched

It's not just like a bunch of engineers, can't you, like, work weekends and that type of stuff. matched

Not that that works anyway, but... matched

There are real bottlenecks in this, and these lead times are not that easy to compress. matched

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