Ramez Naam
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 16 Jul
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Now it's maybe a five to seven year wait.
Option two is behind the meter power.
So people are trying to buy natural gas turbines to build on site at their data center.
to run their load.
The big turbines made by companies like GE are sold out five to seven years.
So now they're turning to smaller turbines that are maybe a tenth, a twentieth the size, and a whole bunch of these things on the back of semi-tractor trailers, basically.
And you have companies, you know, Boom Supersonic was trying to build a supersonic jet a few years ago, or as recently as six months ago.
They've pivoted to taking their engine and
and making it a power plant for behind the meter power for data centers.
Option three, one that I really love, is batteries.
Just being really clever, we build the grid out for peak demand, for late afternoon in the summer when the AC is on.
But most hours of the day, the poles and wires, which again are the bottleneck, are not loaded.
So you take a battery, install it at your data center, fill it up at night,
don't need to touch the grid in the afternoon, and suddenly you can get powered on a lot faster.
We've just passed some regulatory changes for that.
And then you get into the sci-fi stuff.
You get into Elon talking about space-based data centers.
Nothing about the physics says that can't work, but the cost of launch has to come down a whole lot.
Or one of a startup that I'm invested in called Panthalassa making floating ocean data centers that get power from waves.
And the benefit of both space and ocean is it's going around regulatory.
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