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Josh Payne

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
44 total appearances

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Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

Yeah, sure.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

So broadly, the company thesis is to take sustainable energy and convert it into intelligence.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

So we first do this in the north of Norway.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

So we operate in the north of Norway using only hydropower.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

The north of Norway has such a large oversupply of energy due to basically the seasons.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

Effectively, during the winter, all of the glaciers melt over.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

And then in the summer, they all melt and create enormous waterfalls.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

And the Norwegian government has built large hydropower dams to capture that energy.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

But the challenge is it can't be exported.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

And so it's got to be consumed in region.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

So Emscale is building some of the largest AI infrastructure projects on the European continent in the north of Norway, taking otherwise stranded energy and converting it to intelligence.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

The same goes for our projects in Texas, as an example.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

In Texas, you've got a similar oversupply of renewables and other energy, but it's in remote location.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

So we're building some of the largest infrastructure projects in North America in this location in order to convert that to intelligence.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

Now, in West Virginia, we're doing the same thing, but slightly different.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

In West Virginia, we're producing our own energy.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

One of the challenges with the North American grid is constraint.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

And so we felt that producing our own energy with natural gas generators, i.e.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

behind the meter, was the best way to scale sustainably, but also not impact local prices and the grid.

Bloomberg Talks
Former Meta COO Sheryl Sandberg and NScale CEO Josh Payne Talk Nscale

Yeah, so today we're operating in five countries.