Karim Abou Zahab

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

It depends.

This is our favorite answer in the team.

It depends, right?

A lot of data centers that do have a disaster recovery mechanism in place do have on-site generators, just like hospitals.

So in case they fall off the grid for whatever reason, they can just prop up that backup generator almost instantly.

It takes less than a second usually.

and basically utilize that energy.

However, now we have most countries that are importing gas, importing oil from other countries.

We're seeing that also translate to renewable energy disaster recovery sources, basically.

So we're seeing more and more data centers, more and more organizations that are installing on-site renewable energy as a disaster recovery mechanism.

It's funny you mention that because actually in the UK, we've been seeing a lot of projects that are popping up that are requiring to have renewable energy sources on site in order to mitigate that case.

There's a need for disaster recovery.

And that is why when we're talking to our customers, when we're talking about the efficiency of the resources that you're utilizing, one of the best ways to mitigate the carbon impact of your IT is to achieve what we call 24-7 renewable energy.

And that can only be achieved with a mix of different sources of renewable energy.

So we're seeing more and more organizations go to that because of the carbon impact, as well as because of the disaster recovery capabilities that it provides.

This is something that we're actually talking about.

So how can we in the future make sure that not every single data center requires a mini nuclear power plant right next to it?

Because utilization of electricity of those data centers is skyrocketing.

We're seeing data centers that are requiring possibly in the next couple of years gigawatts of energy.

So how can we actually mitigate that?

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