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Palazzi: Five of top 10 US utilities store data on Snowflake

Titian Palazzi · Will poor data hold back the potential of AI on the grid? · Jun 29, 2023 · at 24:44

Titian Palazzi of Snowflake discusses utility data adoption at the Transition AI conference.

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“Five of the top 10 US IOUs store their data on Snowflake, and that's also, that's data from CRMs, but it's also data from AMI meters.”

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