Dylan Patel

If you skew it up and down too much, these transient power responses, your refrigerator will break down sooner.

The motor's in it.

And you might not even know it because the data center's nearby.

So like all these things,

Because maybe it's not like turning off the power, but the Hertz is not perfectly 59.

It's like oscillating too much.

And then the motor in it and the coil windings and all this is burning out faster because of this variation.

Like a car, right?

Like if you were to floor a car on floor, instead of just like accelerating slowly, like think of it the same way.

You're flooring it, letting go, flooring it, letting go.

There's so many like third order effects here.

The funnest one is just that we're building power, right?

And it's like, whether it's gas, which is a lot of it, whether it's through efficient dual combine cycle reactors, or it's like random generators that are not nearly as efficient, single cycle or even worse.

Diesel generators, there's a company that's putting a bunch of truck engines in parallel.

Diesel truck engines, because the industrial capacity for diesel truck engines is huge.

And no one's tapped it yet.

So why don't we just put a ton of them in parallel?

and create this power generation thing right here, right?

And then you're generating power with a bunch of diesel truck engines in parallel, and then you're able to power a data center, right?

Like, okay, great, because I can't get turbines.