Data Centers and Energy with Phil Deutch | E2015
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 26 September 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Timestamps:
(0:00) Teaser of today’s Liquidity Summit talk from Phil Deutch.
(1:29) Alex kicks off the show.
(2:11) Jason introduces Phil Deutch at the Liquidity Summit 2024
(3:52) Phil Deutch’s talk “Data Centers & Energy: A First Principles Understanding of Investment Opportunities & Challenges”
(4:39) Data center power demands and the impact on energy demand
(7:30) The complexity of energy generation and distribution
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(10:55) Electricity generation in the US, transmission, and distribution challenges
(15:17) Market opportunity for faster electricity delivery and sustainability challenges
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(21:14) The nuclear power debate, role of AI and batteries in energy management
(25:55) Consumer awareness and recent outages' impact on energy consumption
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(30:39) Audience questions on the transition to AI and EV adoption challenges
(34:09) Future innovations in energy: Solar, storage, and the potential for free electricity
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | When you have your electricity bill, let's say it's 100 bucks, |
| 0:03.2 | only 25 bucks of that is from the generation source, |
| 0:06.4 | the rest of the wires to get it to you. |
| 0:08.2 | But electricity in Texas is a good example, |
| 0:10.8 | might cost you three cents a kilowatt hour at a cool winter day. |
| 0:15.6 | In the summer that can jump to almost a thousand dollar kilowatt hour to the utility. |
| 0:21.5 | They don't pass it through, but I can't think of a commodity in the world that goes |
| 0:26.3 | up 300 X in a day, no 3,000 X in a day. |
| 0:31.0 | Just Game Stop. Right, just Game Stop. Right. Right, right. The thing I think I'm close to being able to say is, I think in our children's lifetime, electricity would be close to being free. |
| 0:42.0 | Wow. |
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| 1:29.1 | Hey everybody, Alex here and I have a treat for you today. We have the very first talk from our liquidity summit |
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