Karim Abou Zahab

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Technology Now · Are we going to run out of power? | Karim Abou Zahab · 23 Apr 2026 podcast

So the question is, what can I do with the current capacity that I'm either given or currently have?

And the answer is utilize it more efficiently.

I'm going to just give you an example of something that happened in the past year actually in Spain.

And we saw that there was a power cutoff throughout the country.

And a lot of services that were deemed previously critical were shut down, such as public transportation.

So suddenly there was no public transportation anymore in Spain.

So we cannot really say that data centers are on par with critical hospital services, so to speak.

But what is actually inside of a hospital...

an actual data center.

So almost every single hospital in the world now has a data center, has an IT department that is responsible for managing and operating the hospital, including what the patients have received also have been going through, basically their diagnostic.

And hence, certain parts of the IT infrastructure or the IT estate have to be deemed critical by governments or organizations.

So basically, when we're talking about energy sovereignty, and maybe to draw a parallel, so data sovereignty is me as the creator of that data.

having ownership over that data and deciding where the data resides and who gets to look at it, how I'm going to use it, as well as the resiliency of that data.

So when we're talking about energy, it's more or less the same conversation.

As you said, with the current geopolitical landscape all over the world, countries

organizations and companies are looking towards having more and more energy sovereignty.

That is energy responsibility that falls upon themselves.

So they're responsible for generating it.

They're responsible for having the redundancy mechanisms in case we need a disaster recovery.

And they're also responsible for maintaining it.

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