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Isaiah Taylor

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The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

For somebody like me, that means nothing.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

Yeah, it's a good question.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So a 25 megawatt electric unit will power a small town.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So if you want to do, you know, if you want to power a big town, you put several of them next to each other.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

And this is a common strategy for nuclear.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

Pretty much every nuclear site doesn't have just one nuclear unit on it has several.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

Okay.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

But we sort of take that to the logical conclusion and we say we don't just build it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

Normally it's like four, right?

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So you have a site, you put like four units on it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

We want to have a site and put hundreds of units on it eventually.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

To start off with, if you want to make a gigawatt, put 40 down.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So 40 units next to each other at 25 megawatt electric nameplate is a gigawatt of power.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

Now you're powering a big city, or you're powering several towns, several cities, a significant portion of the grid.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

And when we look at AI demand, we're looking at demand for data centers as large as a gigawatt, which has never happened before.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

This is a brand new idea of doing a data center that large.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

We're super excited about it.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

Wow.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

Yeah.

The Shawn Ryan Show
#219 Isaiah Taylor - CEO of Valar Atomics

So I think, you know, that's probably going to, a 25 megawatt electric unit is going to be a town of probably like 15,000 people.