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Opinion
Sharp: Power and financing do not exist for top AI growth projections
“Where, you know, the power, the amount of power, and even the amount of financing required to meet these upper end projections, it doesn't exist, right?”
Chris Sharp Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 24:51 The state of play of data center development
Opinion
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
Opinion
Sharp: Pure off-grid bridge power remains an outlier in data centers
“Yeah, I think there's some outliers. Very few of it gets covered in the press because nobody wants to really go on to the market where you, the grid can't meet the customer ramp demands today. I mean, full stop... But yeah, it is an outlier.”
Chris Sharp Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 26:57 The state of play of data center development
Opinion
Sharp: Behind-the-meter data center power is merely a temporary stopgap
“Doing behind the meter, you know, becoming a power generation capability, I think is a short term gap. Nobody would be investigating that if we didn't have the constraint.”
Chris Sharp Jun 12, 2025 ▶ 30:03 The state of play of data center development
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