Here's how I spent
#climateweek
1. Strategic support for the people making grid utilization for data centers real in Texas including
@SlBrandin
2. Helping a coalition founder
@IanMagruder on complex transmission study issues at
@utilizegrid
3. Enabling a third founder to raise his first grid capacity unlock proposal that will actually match extra energy hours to Data Center usage and explaining the outputs of
@AuroraER_Oxford paper funded by
@Google that supports his solution.
4. Connecting my founders into the vision for economically robust clean energy consumption at data centers through netting and off-site behind the meter synergistic modeling and operational telemetry, e.g. V-Wire and
@EmeraldAi_
5. Visiting the incredible campus at Goodnight in Claude,
#Amarillo, and walked through with an incredibly creative power team from Brazil, how they can do more of what they started here for 600 MWs of BTM wind with grid netting, throughout the country.
@CrusoeAI @serenaenergy
6. Helping
@powertownusa with first of a kind solutions we need to make resilience investment easier and faster for commercial buildings in America
7. Walking through a website build using only AI native code, so that the world can know more about everything my
#prosperousinfra platform is building and how we will abate climate impacts of data centers and solve resiliency in America.
Yet more great energy reporting in the WSJ, recommend folks to read
Some quotes from realistic venture capital folks:
- “Decarb is dead for now"
- “Climate Week could basically be AI and data center week"
Removal of subsides + the need to actually power growth exposed how fragile the entire ecosystem was.
Carbon removal gets a lot of flak btw but it's too easy of a scapegoat, there are a lot more techs that have no path to viability that continue to receive a lot of funding