Insane Demands of AI & Datacenters: Exowatt’s Mission for Affordable, Sustainable Power| E2039
This Week in Startups
Jason Calacanis
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🗓️ 5 November 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Todays show:
In this episode, host Alex sits down with Exowatt’s Hannan Parvizian to explore how the company is addressing the massive energy demands of AI and datacenters. They discuss Exowatt's mission to deliver affordable, sustainable power solutions that meet the needs of a rapidly expanding tech landscape. Together, they dive into the challenges and innovations shaping the future of clean energy for data-heavy applications.
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Timestamps: (0:00) AI search energy consumption and corporate willingness to pay for AI (1:30) Introduction to power, electricity, and Hannan Parvizian of ExoWatt (4:21) Renewable energy, fossil fuels, and data center energy consumption (7:15) AI race, energy demands, and founding of ExoWatt
(8:25) Key challenges in the renewable energy sector
(9:24) NetSuite - Download the CFO's Guide to AI and Machine Learning for free at https://www.netusite.com/twist (12:23) Cost of electricity, energy bills, and Texas energy market
(13:40) Exowatt’s unique technology and competitive edge (17:46) Introduction to ExoWatt's P3 product
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(30:47) Washington Post - TWiST listeners can subscribe for just 50 cents per week for your first year at https://www.washingtonpost.com/twist (31:58) P3 modules' energy capacity and storage (34:55) Heat-to-electricity conversion mechanism (37:56) ExoWatt's company background, funding, and scaling challenges (43:14) Variable pricing, customer demand, and AI's energy consumption outlook (50:10) American manufacturing dynamism and AI's impact on the job market *
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| 0:00.0 | Your typical AI search, right, whether using chat GPT or Google or whatever, is using 10 to 25 times more energy than the search that you were running just a year ago using Google. |
| 0:11.7 | So this is super energy hungry. And if you want to have 100 million users using your AI search or a billion, you have to imagine you have to now somehow make for |
| 0:20.9 | 10 times more energy or 25 times more energy. |
| 0:24.0 | Yeah. So it's insane energy demand and energy growth. I don't think anyone's actually fully |
| 0:29.6 | favining the extent of it. |
| 0:31.6 | It's crazy to me that modern parsimonious corporations who have been trimming headcount, |
| 0:36.1 | cutting back on the software spent, are willing to pay 5x. |
| 0:39.3 | The race to win AI knows no cost boundaries. |
| 0:43.3 | That's absolutely insane. |
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| 1:30.4 | Welcome back to this week in startups. |
| 1:32.3 | My name is Alex. |
| 1:33.2 | And today we are talking about power. |
| 1:35.0 | And no, I don't mean influence. |
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