Max Levchin
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2,264 appearances
5 recordings
3 series
first heard Feb 2025
last heard 13 May
Max Levchin’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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hey, we're going to build a space launch station, a space port.
And they say, oh, that sounds good.
Like, you mean because we're going to go to the moon once a decade?
And you're like, no, we're going to launch rockets 10 times a day or 100 times a day.
And people, if they have an example that they can draw from and say, oh, well, like that community doesn't like it, so I shouldn't like it.
That's some of the pushback.
But anyway, we can keep reading Shanu Matthews' post.
Yeah, let's see.
Turbines solved a time-to-power problem, so it accelerated the deployment while substations and transmission infrastructure were being built.
That's very different from do all of this off-grid, and economically, most large-scale AI load will still want to be grid-tied long-term.
Interesting.
I have made this point several times, but running your own generation fleet at hyperscale is expensive and operationally complex.
Fuel logistics, maintenance, N plus one redundancy, permitting, emissions compliance, balancing load and supply continuously, multi-year equipment lead times.
You don't just figure that out or want to do that overnight.
Amin, the chief technology officer, or the chief technologist at Google AI,
Does that mean deep mind?
Straight up confirmed this on a podcast, and they literally bought a hybrid island power developer.
BTM generation absolutely matters.
It's becoming a critical bridge solution during a period where utility interconnect timelines are badly lagging demand growth, but I'd strongly push back on the idea that the steady state future is fully off
grid hyperscale campuses.
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