Erin Price-Wright

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1,223 appearances 13 recordings 1 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 5 Aug

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The a16z Show · America's Energy Problem: The Grid That Built America Can’t Power Its Future · 16 Jul 2025 podcast

individual people who wanna make sure that their power isn't gonna go out and they're gonna be caught without energy during an important moment in their lives. matched

I also think around sort of project planning and development, how do you make it faster and easier to build projects within the current regulatory framework? matched

How do you do site selection? matched

How do you navigate permitting? matched

How do you navigate project management? matched

How do you navigate your sort of construction supply chain? matched

We're starting to see companies pick off pieces of that, but I think broadly speaking, there's room for tech and software in that kind of project development space as well. matched

And overall, as a grid gets more heterogeneous, all of the seeds and intersections between things, like there's just so much more opportunity for technology than when you had a single utility managing a single source of power centrally distributed out broadly. matched

Maybe another answer to your question or a different answer to your question is I think the energy industry is probably medium to long term like one of the most prime spots to deploy physical autonomy. matched

So when you think about applications of matched

robotics, whether it's humanoids or more kind of task specific robotics. matched

We're talking about dangerous jobs often. matched

We're talking about manufacturing jobs to build up whether it's small scale reactors or batteries or whatever. matched

So I don't know what the shape of the company is here and how reliant it would be on matched

some of the robot learning work that's happening. matched

But I do think that as we scale our energy capacity, there's gonna be a pretty massive application of industrial robotics to the energy sector. matched

Labor broadly, like this is a little tangential, but when Microsoft was building their new data center in Georgia last year, at one point they had on staff at Microsoft or on contract more than a third of the electricians in the state of Georgia. matched

And they basically maxed out. matched

They hired every single electrician that they possibly could. matched

So I don't think it applies to just electricians. matched

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