Dan Cook

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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

We have a whole other array of issues and feedback and pushback on permitting and siting and whatnot.

So managing the PR, it's an imperative, but then there's also a whole range of utility kind of

positioning or even policy driven largely at the state level that is making it such that you guys are going to have to do that anyways.

There's new specialty large load tariffs.

There's, you know, the kind of bring your own capacity movement and and all these different things.

I would I would suggest it's, you know.

largely going to be driven by what the end user, what the end customer wants or requires.

At the end of the day, if they're saying, hey, it's speed to power and you go find us the top 10% that can deploy as quickly, efficiently, and reliably as possible.

And if they happen to be behind the meter, I would go back to your point of

You're agnostic on the electrons anyways.

So are you equally as agnostic on the grid?

The key, I think, here to sort of point out is that electricity prices are going up.

I mean, that's a Main Street narrative right now.

And whether or not they're going up because of data centers or not doesn't particularly matter because perception is reality.

If they're going up and someone said, great, there's a gigawatt data center up the road and we'll blame them, then that's what gets the blame.

And renewables have dealt with this for a long time where all the issues on the grid, it's our fault because we're intermittent and the queues are clogged.

And now it takes five plus years to get a project.

It's because all the renewables developers screwed it up.

I'm glad it's not just us.

Well, I'll say it happened quicker to you guys than it did to us.

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