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Jigar Shah

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287 total appearances

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Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

Yeah, you know, it's such a crazy thing, right?

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

You know, when you think about the five different bottlenecks you have to data centers, right?

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

So there's the grid, right?

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

Then there's transformers, then there's GPUs, then there's memory, and then there's CPUs now.

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

It looks like they're short, right?

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

They can't build more than 50 gigawatts of data centers between now and 2030 because of limitations on GPUs, memory, and CPUs.

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

But if you go to communities, they're creating havoc at the level of 500 gigawatts across the country.

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

So they are making empty promises to people across the country to disrupt their communities when they don't have the GPUs to fill it.

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

And so that's, I think, what's pissing everybody off.

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

I think people are just saying, if you're going to be a trillion dollars in size and you're going to be booing the entire U.S.

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

economy, how come not a single analyst actually seems to know anything about what's possible?

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

And everyone else is basically like feeding the hype cycle all day.

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

I'll give you an example.

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

In the state of Texas...

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

They are suggesting on official ERCOT letterhead, which is the transmission operator in Texas, that the load queue could be 300 gigawatts, right?

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

Now, mind you, Texas is 70 gigawatts.

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

That's a BS number, right?

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

And of course, people in Texas are scared out of their minds around a BS number.

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

But what's likely to happen in Texas?

Prof G Markets
Data Center Debate: Are Energy Bills About To Explode?

30 gigawatts.

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