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

I've seen all kinds of numbers and projections on this over the last four to five years.

Those numbers sound accurate.

I mean, I'd have to get into the details.

Directionally, he's right.

He's absolutely right.

100%.

Absolutely.

And the grade qualities have been going down, the legacy mines, the legacy assets.

I mean, it's natural resource economics.

There have been ways to improve upon those existing mines and technologies.

But the mining sector has a big outlook and some big shoes to fill to really meet that demand.

Absolutely.

I mean, it still informs my perspective somewhat.

I mean, you look at – take what we deal with on the battery side and now how –

Critical minerals are such a massive part of our conversation for, I mean, it's a national security issue at this point.

And there's a lot of people, you know, in the government and in the private sector trying to navigate that.

So that perspective was always and still is incredibly valuable to me.

What really happened as I got that start, and I mentioned it was a small shop, so looking at different channels of business, different ways to grow.

At that firm, I started basically the energy brokerage side of the business, essentially brokering electricity and natural gas contracts, conventional contracts for the most part, to our metals clients, some of whom were very large loads.

I mean, we talk about large industrial loads today.

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