data center

also referred to as: data centers

32 statements across 25 episodes · 15 bullish · 8 bearish · 21 people on the record · first statement Jul 15, 2017 by Peter Levine · across every show →

Everything said about data center, oldest first

Jul 15, 2017 positive
Insight
Levine: Autonomous edge devices are effectively domain-specific mobile data centers
“You think about a self-driving car, it's effectively a data center on wheels. And a drone is a data center with wings, and a robot is a data center with arms and legs, and a boat is a floating data center”
Peter Levine Jul 15, 2017 ▶ 4:01 The End of Cloud Computing
Jul 28, 2017
What-if
Mars: Converting search to AI assistants requires 100x data center scaling
“If you moved all of the queries that were search queries and turn them into intelligent personal assistant queries, we would have to grow our data centers by two orders of magnitude.”
Jason Mars Jul 28, 2017 ▶ 10:19 Jason Mars
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Insight
Levine: The Mobile Supply Chain Is Eating the Data Center
“We like to say the mobile supply chain is eating the data center, right?”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:22 a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Peter Levine: Data center innovation is driven by the mobile revolution
“Data center, which tends to be the plumbing of the internet has been one of these pretty state areas for a long time. And all of a sudden, there's been this unlocking of lots of innovation happening in the data center, largely on the back of, and not uncoincid…”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:25 a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levine: Every datacenter of the future will be scale-out architecture
“Every data center of the future will be a scale out data center, right? Applications are going to change. The user base is going to need that as, you know, again, mobile, and then we start to think about Internet of Things as, You know, collecting all this inf…”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 11:37 a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levine: Mobile hardware will solve data center power and cooling constraints
“Power and cooling are critical elements in designing a data center these days, so to the extent that we can go design a data center that uses much less power, requires much less cooling is optimizing on floor space, those are the ingredients for massive scale-…”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 4:26 a16z Podcast | Datacenter of the Future
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Levine: Mobile hardware supply chains will replace PC architectures in data centers
“What I'm specifically talking about with respect to the consumerization of IT is the idea that the components of mobile devices will become the basis for hardware in the data center of the future. And so, not unlike we saw the PC revolution replace mainframes …”
Peter Levine Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 0:36 a16z Podcast | The Consumerization of IT
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Supported
Sinofsky: 85% of enterprise datacenter resources go unused
“It leads to this unbelievable waste, and waste in a data center is, is a big mess. 85% of the resources go unused”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 1:47 a16z Podcast | Why the Datacenter Needs an Operating System
Jan 2, 2019 positive
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Ludwin: Cross-chain asset swaps will be easier than legacy data center integration
“So even if we have a world with many different networks, it won't be hard to exchange across those networks because ultimately we're talking about cryptographically issued and transferred assets. So it's going to be much easier than integrating two data center…”
Adam Ludwin Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 34:24 a16z Podcast | Blockchain vs/and Bitcoin
Jan 2, 2019 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Casado: 80% of security spend targets data center perimeters unnecessarily
“80% of the security spend is at the perimeter of a data center, even though a minority of the traffic actually ever leaves the data center”
Martin Casado Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 18:29 a16z Podcast | Infrastructure... Is Everything
Jan 2, 2019 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
NASDAQ CIO predicts stock exchanges will move data centers from NJ
“So I would say speed has already been exploited. And now it goes back to, I think, security, fairness, and resiliency are going to be balanced out, so we probably won't end up with massive data centers in New Jersey and Chicago.”
Brad Peterson Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 6:15 a16z Podcast | Securing Infrastructure and Enterprise Services
Jan 2, 2019 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sinofsky: Operating an on-prem data center costs 10x more than AWS
“People complain about AWS pricing, but the flip side of it is like running a data center yourself is 10 times as expensive.”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 15:39 a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
Jan 2, 2019 neutral
Assertion Supported
Sinofsky: Intel has shifted focus away from core PC chips
“Intel has very, you know, has announced, like, they're not even focused on PC chips. Like that it's about the data center, and it's about IoT and VR and a bunch of stuff, but not, not like core i-seven, the next generation.”
Steven Sinofsky Jan 2, 2019 ▶ 3:53 a16z Podcast | The $200 PC in the Enterprise
Aug 29, 2019 neutral
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Narula: Paxos algorithms power data center scheduling at most large companies
“A form of consensus an algorithm specifically called Paxos and variants are used inside most large companies today in order to control sort of the scheduling and the design of their data centers.”
Neha Narula Aug 29, 2019 ▶ 6:35 The Architecture of Crypto Innovation
Aug 25, 2023
Insight
Appenzeller: $100M annual compute spend justifies building owned data centers
“If you're spending ten million dollars a year, you're probably still under critical, right? If you're spending a hundred million dollars a year on infrastructure, that, that maybe, A reason to look into options for your own dataset.”
Guido Appenzeller Aug 25, 2023 ▶ 11:57 Chasing Silicon: The Race for GPUs
Mar 13, 2024 neutral
Insight
Andreessen: AI and crypto workloads naturally favor data center centralization
“The good news from energy is these systems lend themselves to centralization of data centers, right?”
Marc Andreessen Mar 13, 2024 ▶ 12:26 America Needs More Techno-Optimism, with Marc Andreessen and Tyler Cowen
Mar 27, 2024 bullish
Assertion Supported
Cloud hyperscalers are exploring nuclear energy to ensure data center reliability
“You know, another good example is like data centers, as you noted you know, these regions where a lot of these data centers are located are expecting huge growth in energy demand to the point now that some large hyperscalers are looking at things like nuclear …”
Ryan McEntush Mar 27, 2024 ▶ 4:10 The Electric Grid, Explained
Jan 3, 2025 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Midha: France's nuclear investments created extraordinarily efficient data centers today
“You know, France for example's embrace of nuclear, 20 years ago, has positioned them to have extraordinarily efficient data centers today.”
Anjney Midha Jan 3, 2025 ▶ 14:51 AI Is Becoming a Regional Race
Jan 3, 2025 positive
Insight
Midha: AI data centers are the new atomic unit of national sovereignty
“The leading indicator is definitely compute. If you think about the AI supply chain, the first mile starts at the data center, right? That's the new atomic unit of sovereignty, I would say, which is a new thing.”
Anjney Midha Jan 3, 2025 ▶ 15:59 AI Is Becoming a Regional Race
Sep 22, 2025 neutral
Insight
Patel: Energy and data centers are NVIDIA's primary growth bottleneck
“Do you invest in data centers and energy? Yeah. Do you invest in, because that's the bottleneck for your growth really is, is A, well, how much people want to spend and can spend, and B, the ability to actually put them in data centers.”
Dylan Patel Sep 22, 2025 ▶ 53:08 Dylan Patel on the AI Chip Race - NVIDIA, Intel & the US Government vs. China
Sep 24, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Steve Sinofsky: Intel missed both the GPU and data center market opportunities
“This, you know, this is like Intel with the GPU. Like they missed the GPU. In 2005. Right. And they missed the opportunity to buy the company, to do the work or whatever, and they kind of missed the data center too. It just took a longer time to figure out tha…”
Steven Sinofsky Sep 24, 2025 ▶ 42:59 Software Finally Eats Services - Aaron Levie
Sep 27, 2025
Assertion Contradicted
Lazzarin: Data center GPUs retain display logic and unused monitor ports
“GPUs still internally use all the logic of showing things on a screen. You know, you buy like a GPU for a data center. It still has little ports on the back to connect a monitor to it. They'll never be used, right?”
Eddie Lazzarin Sep 27, 2025 ▶ 1:53 The Common Thread of All Technology: Monitoring the Situation, Ep.1
Oct 20, 2025 positive
Assertion Partly supported
Hoffman: Google achieved 40% data center energy savings using AI
“Google applied its algorithms to its own data centers, which are some of the best tuned grid systems in the world. 40% energy savings.”
Reid Hoffman Oct 20, 2025 ▶ 35:03 Reid Hoffman on AI, Consciousness, and the Future of Labor
Oct 29, 2025
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Patel: New AI data centers are built near available power sources
“Because there's not enough power singularly in one location, data centers are being built where the power is available rather than power being brought to where the data centers are.”
Jeetu Patel Oct 29, 2025 ▶ 6:51 Building the Real-World Infrastructure for AI, with Google, Cisco & a16z
Nov 3, 2025 bearish
Prediction Not checkable as stated
Sacks: Nuclear power for data centers will take five to ten years
“Nuclear is going to take five or 10 years. It's just not something that we're going to be able to do in the next two or three years”
David Sacks Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 51:57 Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
Nov 3, 2025 negative
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Sacks: A gas turbine shortage is the immediate bottleneck for AI power
“The issue is there's, like, a shortage of these gas turbines. You know, there's only, like, two or three companies that make these things, and, like, there's, like, a backlog of two or three years, so I think that's probably the immediate problem there that ne…”
David Sacks Nov 3, 2025 ▶ 52:27 Sacks, Andreessen & Horowitz: How America Wins the AI Race Against China
Dec 8, 2025 neutral
Assertion Supported
Rao: Data centers consume 4% of the US energy grid
“And today we put about four percent of the energy grid of the U S energy grid into those data centers.”
Naveen Rao Dec 8, 2025 ▶ 11:34 The Chip That Could Unlock AGI.
Feb 9, 2026 bullish
Assertion Not checkable as stated
David George: Newly installed GPUs in data centers get fully utilized immediately
“If you put a GPU in the system and a data center, it gets fully utilized immediately.”
David George Feb 9, 2026 ▶ 35:06 AI Markets: Deep Dive with a16z's David George
May 27, 2026 positive
Disclosure
Marc Rowan: Data centers and chip financing drive Apollo's business
“So if I look at the drivers of our business for this year, it is data centers. It is massive amounts of chip financing.”
Marc Rowan May 27, 2026 ▶ 25:45 Private Markets, Software Repricing and Capital Allocation | Marc Rowan on a16z
Aug 31, 2026 positive
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Behind-The-Meter Data Centers Can Increase Local Town Tax Revenue 10x
“Particularly with behind the meter power generation, when a data center goes in, It transforms a town like tax revenue. It doesn't double it like 10 X's and it is revitalizing all of these like dying small towns all over America.”
Gavin Baker Aug 31, 2026 ▶ 24:29 Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
Aug 31, 2026 negative
Opinion
CCP Launders Anti-Data Center Campaigns Through TikTok, Asserts Gavin Baker
“Like there is an organized CCP funded campaign. I think against data centers here in America. Like I think a lot of it gets laundered through TikTok and it's just tragic because the other thing that's happening is this is re-industrializing America.”
Gavin Baker Aug 31, 2026 ▶ 26:48 Why AI Demand Is Outrunning Compute Supply
Sep 9, 2026 bearish
Insight
Chi: Fragmented sovereign AI infrastructure is extremely capital inefficient
“If I was taking a God's eye view, it would be extremely inefficient to build all of these data centers and replicate this data engineering process and train these very large models when in fact you could probably consolidate a lot of these efforts but it seems…”
Ryan Chi Sep 9, 2026 ▶ 34:32 Inside the Race to Measure Frontier Intelligence
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