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Under the hood of data center power demand
- ▶ 39:51 Shayle Kann And by the way, decarbonization, or like, access to clean power at that site, and then ideally access to twenty-four-seven clean power at that site, right, which is the, the goal that the hyperscalers have set for themselves, or at least I…
Drew Baglino on Tesla’s Master Plan
- ▶ 30:35 Shayle Kann So the metrics people are using, I will note there was another, I think it was Google or somebody, one of the other hyperscalers has their own chip that they're building
The news quiz episode!
- ▶ 23:53 Stephen Lacey Excess renewables, uh, and Google's carbon aware computing, specifically for demand response, which they have dispatched in Europe and in the Midwest. 2 times in the scene
More 2024 trends: ESG, carbon certifications, curtailment, and AI
- ▶ 39:15 Nat Bullard Uh, this is data from Google's data centers, and they're about as transparent as you can get with this figure.
Mailbag episode! Interest rates, carbon dioxide removal, load growth, and more
- ▶ 11:14 Shayle Kann I mean, another example, this would be like the first PPA that ever got signed for enhanced geothermal in the United States from, from Fervo was with Google. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 31:52 Shayle Kann And the story that I like that relates to this, if you want to take an extreme version of what we'd be talking about doing with geoengineering, so in, I'm going to butcher this a little bit, so listeners don't Google too closely, but broad…
Can the V2X dream become reality?
- ▶ 13:57 Ty Yeagerson Um, if you think about, if you think about what's going to happen, like I remember when I was at Google
- ▶ 34:46 Ty Yeagerson You got, you know, Google and Amazon,
With Great Power: What other industries can teach utilities about innovation
- ▶ 0:46 Daniel Waldorf He comes from Google, where he played a critical role in jump-starting the company's twenty-four-seven clean energy effort, working as the global head of energy and location strategy.
- ▶ 2:03 Brad Langley Google was ahead of the curve. 7 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:03 Brad Langley After a career spanning more than 30 years in utilities and tech, including two years at Google, 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 6:01 Brad Langley So after your time as the global head of energy and location strategy at Google, you actually moved on to their moonshot arm, which is called X, which is a really cool, you know, brand and, and some cool initiatives. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 12:17 Rayford Smith Um, you know, uh, at, at Google, I could throw a rock and hit a hundred data scientists.
- ▶ 13:17 Brad Langley So tech companies like Google are pushing the limits of energy, and they're partnering with utilities and helping them push those limits. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:30 Brad Langley So you obviously had a very successful one at Google, working on some very cool projects. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:51 Rayford Smith Um, you know, I can tell you when we were building data centers at Google, you know, in some places it took us seven years to get transmission access.
AI for climate: a real world test
- ▶ 44:55 Duncan Campbell Um, I happen to use Google Collaboratory, I think it's called, as opposed to, like, Jupyter notebooks, which is pretty common, but either way, it's just,
The carbon market’s quality problem
- ▶ 0:30 unnamed speaker Patrick Walsh, a general partner at National Grid Partners, and Savannah Goodman, the data and software climate solutions lead at Google.
Keeping copper from limiting the energy transition
- ▶ 0:30 Shayle Kann Patrick Walsh, a general partner at National Grid Partners, and Savannah Goodman, the data and software climate solutions lead at Google.
Four ways to store sunlight
- ▶ 0:30 Shayle Kann Patrick Walsh, a general partner at National Grid Partners, and Savannah Goodman, the data and software climate solutions lead at Google.
Unpacking EPA’s newly proposed power emissions rule
- ▶ 0:30 Shayle Kann Patrick Walsh, a general partner at National Grid Partners, and Savannah Goodman, the data and software climate solutions lead at Google.
Betting big on renewable natural gas
- ▶ 2:17 Shayle Kann So I have this Google Finance page.
More 2023 trends: EVs, onshoring, and the three ages of decarbonization
- ▶ 36:44 Nat Bullard You know, that already happened with, with Google's data center in Alabama.
- ▶ 40:00 Nat Bullard And I'm, by the way, I'm basing this on Google Trends searches for, you know, sort of hits and significance and interest for these terms.
Ammonia: the beer of decarbonization
- ▶ 0:32 Shayle Kann Look up the interest in the term green ammonia on Google Trends.
Watt It Takes: TeraWatt Infrastructure CEO Neha Palmer
- ▶ 0:45 Shayle Kann Neha also led Google's energy strategy for a decade prior to Terawatt.
- ▶ 5:20 Emily Kirsch We talked about Neha joining Terawatt after leaving Google, where, for nearly a decade, she was a key figure in their ambitious renewable energy strategy.
- ▶ 12:41 Emily Kirsch And then later returned to PG&E for a few years with a focus on corporate development, um, before joining Google as head of energy strategy, where you were for almost a decade. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 23:53 Emily Kirsch You did it as a gas pipeline engineer at PG&E, you did it at Google with data centers, and now you're doing it again for electric vehicles.
- ▶ 29:44 Emily Kirsch And I know you've worked at large corporations and utilities your entire career, um, at PG&E and Goldman and Google. 4 times in the scene
When will batteries take over the world?
- ▶ 5:01 Lara Pierpoint I think some of our listeners may already have found out that if you Google the word Volta, you'll probably get about eight different organizations and companies.
What the grid can learn from the internet
- ▶ 12:33 Astrid Atkinson You know, many people have Nest thermostats.
- ▶ 19:33 Astrid Atkinson Um, on-prem software solutions will typically use sort of two, three, maybe five, or even 10 servers, whereas the kinds of modern computing solutions for managing really large amounts of data from places like Google or Facebook or Uber or… 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 20:56 Astrid Atkinson Um, but for a system like the monitoring systems at Google that keep track of Google's systems that conduct searches and, you know, manage YouTube traffic and provide maps and all of these things, you know, if you look at search alone, um,…
- ▶ 43:13 Astrid Atkinson It's, it's normal and state-of-the-art for any very large-scale distributed system like Google Systems or Facebooks or Ubers or SpaceX or, you know, any company that deals with, um, highly instrumented systems that have a lot of
- ▶ 55:33 Astrid Atkinson You know, I was, I was working for Google when they first implemented their large-scale cloud computing technology platform, um, and was able to see firsthand, you know, sort of how quickly you can really tackle huge real-world problems,…
Quantum computing could be a critical climate solution
- ▶ 14:31 Mark Cupta You've got sort of the, the big companies that are going after this, and so this is IBM, Honeywell, Google, Microsoft, um, uh, to, to name a few. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 22:33 Mark Cupta It is the Amazons, it's the Microsoft, it's the Googles.
- ▶ 38:39 Mark Cupta Proteins are just sequences of amino acids, and what's really interesting is how those proteins fold onto one another, and that folding and that shape is something that, um, we are getting better and better at predicting at, like DeepMind…
A bumpy ride toward decarbonizing aviation
- ▶ 38:04 Shayle Kann You know, Google flights.
- ▶ 39:16 Dan Rutherford So I think it's really positive that Google and Kayak and others are, are,
Kickstarting a $1 trillion market for carbon removal
- ▶ 20:15 Nan Ransohoff Yeah, so Google pioneered this back in, um, you know, in the nineties with renewables where they essentially said, we will pay a premium to purchase clean energy from solar, wind, et cetera, companies, um, and in order for those companies…
- ▶ 25:57 Shayle Kann Was like Google and a bunch of these other companies and corporate renewables, they pioneered the model, but they had the sophistication and the resources to be able to say, all right, we're going to figure out how to negotiate these…
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