Dan Cook

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357 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jun 2026 last heard 9 Jun

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Not Your Father’s Data Center · Solar Power's Role in the Future of Digital and Energy Infrastructure · 9 Jun 2026 podcast

There's really only so many bonafide data center developers that are actually going to go soup to nuts and deliver what the end user needs or what the hyperscalers and these newer builds are looking for.

Everyone else is effectively just a broker.

Yeah, absolutely.

I appreciate it.

You know, at the top level, my company, SolarStone, we are utility scale solar and battery developers for the most part.

We currently are working on about two gigawatts worth of projects.

Ohio is home.

I'm born and raised in Cleveland, and that's where I decided to set up shop.

Really starting SolarStone, for me, we were always development minded and focused.

Really didn't start developing our own projects until really 2021, 2022.

And I myself did not come from a development shop.

I think that's somewhat unique in the development world, especially as this industry has grown so much.

I got my start really in the commodities world.

I was a metals trader.

And started off working base metals, copper, aluminum, nickel, lead, zinc, those types of things.

And we had a lot of clients in the physical space and it was a fast stimulating environment.

I really enjoyed it.

Absolutely.

I think when you look at the electrification narrative at large,

Copper really is the winner and copper should be seen as kind of the biggest concern.

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