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every year anyone Stephen Lacey 63Lara Pierpoint 21Phil Goodman 12Hannah Green 9Brian Janous 6Katherine Hamilton 5Raphael Brose 4Tom Burton & Silas (Sales) Braga 2Mark Gurman 2Tadeu Carneiro 1
Verbatim, from the transcripts: the passages where Microsoft comes up
Inside Microsoft’s plan to remove 50 years of carbon emissions
- ▶ 0:09 Lara Pierpoint In January of twenty-twenty, Microsoft announced a major goal. 9 times in the scene
- ▶ 2:07 Lara Pierpoint So Microsoft opened a request for proposals to try to find good candidates for carbon removal partners. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 3:42 Lara Pierpoint This week, I'm talking with Phil Goodman, director of Microsoft's carbon removal portfolio. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:24 Phil Goodman And so Microsoft at the time saw that CDR was an unaddressed area. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 7:24 Lara Pierpoint What's changed since you joined Microsoft is this little known thing called artificial intelligence has become much more real than it was before. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:27 Lara Pierpoint We'll dig into the supply side of CDR, what it looks like to find quality projects, and we'll walk through some examples of Microsoft CDR partners after the break.
- ▶ 17:12 Phil Goodman Type in and search for Microsoft Carbon Removal Program. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 26:07 Phil Goodman Knowing that the revenue purchase from, from Microsoft is secure, that we are going to stay in and buy the carbon that actually gets generated from it.
- ▶ 33:29 Phil Goodman One idea is, frankly, a fund to help startup supplier companies in the CDR space that is independently managed, because we want to have an arm's length relationship for Microsoft, to help them 2 times in the scene
Captura's high-stakes gamble
- ▶ 27:45 Steve Oldham There are companies like Microsoft, Frontier, and others that are seeking to create a market and build a supplier base.
Boston Metal’s path to carbon-free steel
- ▶ 20:58 Tadeu Carneiro Then you have Saudi Aramco, you have Microsoft, you, if you have the,
A complex path for building heat batteries
- ▶ 26:31 John O'Donnell The other matter is, it's been a place for independent engineers, owners, engineers of customers, and an IE that we engaged to go look at a real operating unit, look at its operating history, and obviously it's a pretty boring thing to…
The ‘third inning’ of the energy transition [partner content]
- ▶ 32:03 Tom Burton & Silas (Sales) Braga I am, and I think you, you've seen, uh, each of Amazon, Google, and Microsoft over the last several months step into, um, really unique, uh, energy innovation as, as they've contracted with, um, you know, large scale and, and in, in most… 2 times in the scene
Our final episode: The top stories of 2024 so far
- ▶ 11:53 Katherine Hamilton So it was somebody who worked for Microsoft, it was somebody from Energy Innovation, and it was somebody from a 2 times in the scene
AI-fueled geothermal and ‘the edge of the possible’
- ▶ 12:59 Stephen Lacey We just saw in Microsoft's sustainability report, emissions have gone up 30% in the last year. 3 times in the scene
Energy is now the ‘primary bottleneck’ for AI
- ▶ 3:32 Stephen Lacey He's the former VP of energy at Microsoft, and he had a front row seat into the rise of ChatGPT and how it complicated clean energy procurement, and he's now focused on unlocking new grid capacity for utilities, hopefully without relying…
- ▶ 9:07 Stephen Lacey Yeah, and I know Microsoft recently filed comments suggesting that there's an overstatement, that utilities are overstating some of the data center demand that's to come, so we can talk a little bit about that.
- ▶ 9:21 Stephen Lacey You worked at Microsoft for more than a decade. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 21:52 Brian Janous And my response to that is, well, then Meta or Microsoft or Google will plug in twice as many chips.
The news quiz episode!
- ▶ 7:55 Stephen Lacey Uh, according to a leaked document from Business Insider, Microsoft is expanding data center capacity dramatically. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 16:16 Stephen Lacey This quote comes from Microsoft's Hannah Green, speaking at our Transition AI conference last fall.
- ▶ 40:03 Matt Eggers Yeah, um, Microsoft.
Inside Apple’s failed car program
- ▶ 25:15 Mark Gurman And so placing those people in very important areas like generative AI, which is at the very core of what you're seeing from NVIDIA and Meta and Google and Microsoft, OpenAI, Anthropic, you name it. 2 times in the scene
The achilles heel of AI in the power system: data
- ▶ 0:08 Stephen Lacey So last week we featured an interview with Brian Janis, a former Microsoft VP who had a front row seat to the AI energy boom and all the grid constraints that are coming with it. 2 times in the scene
The urgent need to simplify clean energy finance [partner content]
- ▶ 1:22 Amanda Lee I was originating deals, underwriting them, working on capital markets work, and all of it was in spreadsheets, Word documents, emails.
New demand is straining the grid. Here’s how to tackle it.
- ▶ 1:36 Brian Janous I, uh, most recently was the VP of Energy at Microsoft. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 11:55 Stephen Lacey And that's what you have focused on since you left Microsoft. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 15:26 Stephen Lacey So, since Microsoft, you've also been focusing on building your own company, and just yesterday, before we recorded, you announced that you, uh, have co-founded a company called Cloverleaf Infrastructure. 2 times in the scene
How AI is rapidly advancing new materials for clean energy
- ▶ 25:31 Stephen Lacey Um, you know, Microsoft is using AI. 3 times in the scene
For Microsoft, AI is an ‘unlock’ for decarbonization
- ▶ 2:16 Stephen Lacey Then in 2021, Hannah went to Microsoft, and today she's the leader of global operations and go-to-market strategy for the energy industry there. 5 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:17 Stephen Lacey Let's get into some specific use cases and partnerships, but very broadly, Microsoft has identified hundreds of potential applications, and some of that, some of those we'll talk about coming up. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 5:19 Hannah Green And then the way that we're, in addition to the Azure open AI work and co-innovation that we're doing with our customers, we're also pulling those generative AI capabilities into a number of our products, and we're calling those co-pilots. 4 times in the scene
- ▶ 8:05 Hannah Green There's a function now where in PowerPoint, with the right direction, it can draft a PowerPoint deck for you, and I don't know about you, but the first 20 minutes that I'm staring at my PowerPoint slides is not my most productive 20… 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 10:01 Hannah Green So they were very thoughtful early on and working with, with our teams as a Microsoft partner.
- ▶ 17:59 Stephen Lacey It was architected on Microsoft's cloud to manage tens of thousands of batteries, solar systems, and EV chargers. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 24:53 Stephen Lacey Um, Microsoft, uh, uh, Google, and others have seen this massive spike in computing demand inside data centers, which ultimately, of course, has, uh, consequences for energy and 15 times in the scene
- ▶ 28:31 Stephen Lacey So Microsoft, Google, others are, you know, really putting themselves as AI first companies, and this is going to be really crucial to all the collaboration that you're doing with utilities and other energy companies. 3 times in the scene
- ▶ 30:54 Hannah Green It's in Azure.
- ▶ 31:50 Stephen Lacey Again, that was me talking with Microsoft's Hannah Green at our Transition AI New York event.
Investors riff on the new era for climate investing
- ▶ 0:46 Stephen Lacey We've got workshops, panels, data dives, and you can network with experts from Microsoft, Meta, Oracle, GE Digital, Amazon, National Grid, Avon Grid, Southern Company, and so many more.
Can California pull off its clean energy ambitions?
- ▶ 0:27 Stephen Lacey Microsoft, GE Digital, AES, National Grid, Oracle, and a bunch of founders, executives, and academics who are building AI strategies right now.
Why electric cars are driving the auto strikes
- ▶ 0:14 Stephen Lacey It's on October 19th and we're going to have experts from Microsoft, GE Digital, AES, National Grid, Oracle, and a bunch of founders, executives, and academics who are building AI strategies right now.
New frontiers of clean energy emerge
- ▶ 1:48 Stephen Lacey Microsoft, GE Digital, AES, National Grid, Oracle, and a range of founders, executives, and academics who are building AI strategies right now.
- ▶ 52:57 Lisa Martine Jenkins So most of Amazon's competitors, companies like Shopify and Stripe and Meta and Alphabet and, and hugely Microsoft, um, which made a very comparable but even larger commitment also just two weeks ago, um, they've made much more significant…
Inflation headwinds for offshore wind
- ▶ 0:43 Stephen Lacey It's going to feature top experts from Microsoft, GE Digital, AES, National Grid, Oracle, and a range of founders, executives, and academics who are building AI strategies right now.
Why Texas Republicans are trying to crush wind and solar
- ▶ 9:46 Chris Tomlinson Major corporations like Facebook, Amazon, you know, Microsoft, Google, all coming to Texas, building, you know, signing power purchase agreements to support massive renewables development.
Live: Is advanced nuclear ready for liftoff?
- ▶ 53:47 Katherine Hamilton However, you look at the Microsoft announcement. 3 times in the scene
A new catalyst for the smart home: electrify everything
- ▶ 4:40 Stephen Lacey Even Google and Microsoft got in on the action and then shut down their energy dashboards when no one was using them.
A breakout year for carbon removal?
- ▶ 3:57 Stephen Lacey We'll hear from Raphael Brose of Microsoft about how the company is investing in the space. 2 times in the scene
- ▶ 4:49 Stephen Lacey That's when Microsoft unveiled a plan to become carbon negative by 2030. 6 times in the scene
- ▶ 9:24 Raphael Brose I'll add a caveat, and this is one of the things that we're running into, and, um, I would say, like, my philosophy, and I think Microsoft's philosophy, is in this space to just learn by doing, and then transparently relay what we're… 4 times in the scene
A reality check on corporate sustainability
- ▶ 0:18 Sinduja Rangarajan You know, when I got my journalism degree, I realized that I have these skills, programming skills, analysis skills, the ability to just open Excel and not get lost, and so I realized that I could put them to good use.
- ▶ 9:47 Stephen Lacey Some companies, like Stripe and Microsoft, are setting negative emissions targets and investing meaningful sums of money in early carbon removal projects.
- ▶ 10:49 Joel Makower Well, I think it is important, but I also think it's still relatively few and far between that, you know, yes, Microsoft, yes, Amazon, yes, Walmart, you know, yes, uh, you know, a handful of other companies, mostly in the tech field, but…