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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?

They can't have rolling blackouts because a data center didn't plan correctly, right?

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

And so, like, I actually think data centers are going to reduce everyone's electricity bills by 10%.

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

But they got to be done the right way.

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

And you need, like, a U.S.

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

Department of Energy that's forcing them to do it the right way, right?

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

And so one of my big challenges is that we're allowing people to move fast and break things.

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

And, you know, like, this is not something that we can afford to break, right?

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

It's basically two things, right?

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

One is that, exactly as you suggested, that the grid has plenty of capacity

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

almost all of the time, except for maybe 100 to 200 hours a year.

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

Yeah.

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

Right?

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

During those 100 to 200 hours a year, the utility says to the data center, you got to reduce your demand from the grid by 50%, right?

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

And either they can run natural gas generators behind the meter to ride through that,

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

Or they can run it off batteries, or they could, you know, use Emerald AI and others and just shift the compute packages to a different data center, right?

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

Separately, the data centers have to actually have good quality load facing the grid, right?

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

And we've set those standards in the 1960s and 70s, so this is not new.

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

You can't flicker.

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

You can't change how much power you're using from the grid 12 times a minute.

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

right?