Kirk Offel

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6,820 appearances 12 recordings 1 series first heard Jan 2026 last heard 13 Aug

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They're really sophisticated, maybe 10kW per rack.

Data centers are running to the point where we're going to eventually get to, we're at 250 watts, you know, we're after it.

We're trying to get to 1 megawatt racks running on 800 volt DC.

My thing is, is

These things that used to require cooling would be able to be satisfied with some evaporative cooling.

We'd use some water.

We'd do some things.

And now they're so hot that we have to use liquid to cool these things.

Or mineral oil, right?

Yeah, we can't.

When I say liquid, I'm saying we could zero water design data centers today.

Right.

The misconception is we were building these things so small that we could build a data center in 12 months or 18 months and be done with it.

With some of them, we'd be done in nine, nine, 12, 18 months.

That was about the model for data centers.

So people were like, these things don't really create jobs because once the teams are done building them, they're gone.

And it doesn't take many people to operate these things because they're so small.

And they're not really eroding the grid.

They're actually stabilizing the grid at that point.

Because if you live in a city and your electricity is predicated on residential pricing, which is massively cyclical,

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