Ethan Summers

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1,339 appearances 7 recordings 1 series first heard Feb 2026 last heard 28 Jul

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The Watchtower - Mission Critical and Data Center Perspectives · Beyond Five Nines: Navigating the Evolution of Redundancy in Data Center Design · 26 Mar 2026 podcast

And I think that's, what's actually going to be pressure tested is the ability. matched

I'm not saying it's easy because dang, those things are expensive, but it's fairly direct to achieve power redundancy by throwing on some backup gens and managing that fleet. matched

I think that's what's going to be pressure tested is we can't just keep having one big redundancy block now. matched

We're going to have to fundamentally look at the system for building and say, what are all the ways that I can create redundancy in this space? matched

or when all the cloud bots get together and unionize, and then they get upset that the AI data center's gone down. matched

We're laughing about it, but the speed at which things are changing, I don't know. matched

I think that's a good crux for today's conversation, though, is I think we can all agree AI training tolerates downtime differently. matched

For better or worse, right or wrong, right now, it is. matched

And that's creating a measurable shift in what's going on in the market. matched

I always like to start with risk. matched

People have this conception that risk disappears. matched

We've solved it. matched

And risk really moves. matched

You know, an easy example that someone taught me one day is they were talking about penicillin, right? matched

They said, penicillin doesn't get rid of risk. matched

It puts all the risk on the bacteria. matched

It just stuck in my head. matched

You're always shifting risk around. matched

But how do we think about that from a design philosophy perspective? matched

How do we think about that from a supply perspective? matched

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