Data Center Developers

topic on 2 shows · 8 statements across 7 episodes

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Data center operators refuse curtailment to maximize expensive GPU uptime
“I spoke to quite a number of kind of data center developers data center owners and basically they don't want to curtail full stop. I mean, they have fitted out their data center with the best infrastructure. They've paid a lot of money for GPUs and CPUs, extre…”
Sean McAvoy Mar 30, 2026 ▶ 16:16 Battery booms and the rise of flexibility [partner content]
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Gramlich: Hyperscalers fundamentally require full grid connection for five-nines reliability
“My understanding from the hyperscalers and the data center developers is that they all really, really want the Full network transmission service with all of the good, you know, backup and cushion that that network provides to their operations, and the Five Nin…”
Rob Gramlich Nov 20, 2025 ▶ 11:51 Looking for a turnaround in transmission
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Dell: Base Power is developing products to accelerate data center power access
“So we're working on products to help data center developers get access to power faster, and we're really excited to bring that to market in the near future.”
Zach Dell Oct 8, 2025 ▶ 26:24 Base Power Raises $1B led by Addition, with Trust Ventures, Lightspeed, a16z, Altimeter, Elad Gil · Sourcery with Molly O'Shea
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Data center developers are crowding out sites for new U.S. manufacturing electrification
“I can tell you for certain that it is getting harder and harder to find a site to put any of that stuff because there are data center developers hunting around the entire country trying to find anywhere where that is possible. So it's making it, and that's dif…”
Shayle Kann Jul 3, 2025 ▶ 18:13 Fresh intel from state utility regulatory filings
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Sharp: Gigawatt announcements are often just 'braggawatts' ignoring real demand
“There's a lot of noise, like one of the things we've been joking about is a lot of braggawatts. Oh, I have a gigawatt. I have a gigawatt. And there's just so much noise out there that you really want to get underneath the workload and the durability of the com…”
Chris Sharp Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 18:10 The state of play of data center development
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Sharp: Data centers built for spiky training runs will face major failures
“There's going to be some probably written about very big challenges and failures where they wanted a total capacity block, but they couldn't support the densification, or they were just building for the spike. It was very spiky, but the longer term utilization…”
Chris Sharp Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 25:58 The state of play of data center development
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Janous: Data center developers can enter utility queues for just $10,000.
“And some of them are big tech companies, and some of them are just two guys with a truck that decided they were going to be data center developers, and they go get a queue position, and they have to pay 10,000 dollars, that's it, to get in the queue.”
Brian Janous Dec 5, 2024 ▶ 12:47 Explaining the 'Watt-Bit Spread'
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Lubbershane: Data center developers cannot secure power despite high willingness to pay
“They're saying, like, we're desperate, we're willing to pay if you can deliver it to me next year, or in two years, and they're not even able to get it, in many cases, get power on those kind of timelines.”
Andy Lubershane Mar 28, 2024 ▶ 12:43 The electricity gauntlet has arrived

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