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Barron's Streetwise

Nuclear, Crypto, and the A.I. Power Shortage

Barron's Streetwise

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4.8 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 13 September 2024

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

Stephen Byrd, the Global Head of Sustainability Research at Morgan Stanley, talks about investing in the watts needed to run tomorrow’s supercomputers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

It's 4 a.m. and you're sucking baby snot through a tube because she's congested.

0:04.0

If you love her that much, love her enough to make sure she's buckled in the right car seat.

0:08.0

Find out more at N.H.S.A.gov slash the right seat.

0:12.0

Brought to you by the National Highway Traffic Safety

0:13.4

Administration and the ad council. These Bitcoin sites can often offer a three or

0:18.3

four-year time advantage relative to connecting a data center to the grid the old-fashioned way.

0:24.2

Hello and welcome to the Barron Streetwise podcast.

0:27.2

I'm Jack Howe in the voice you just heard.

0:29.8

That's Stephen Byrd.

0:31.6

He's the global head of Sustainability Research at Morgan Stanley, and he's talking about

0:37.4

Bitcoin, only this episode is not about Bitcoin.

0:41.4

It's about power, the data centers, and a power shortage and how we're going to come

0:46.0

up without electricity and some of the ways might surprise you. Ooh, there's a tease. Listening in is our audio producer Jackson.

0:57.0

Hi Jackson.

0:58.0

Hi Jackson.

0:59.0

There's no time to waste so don't try to bait me into some nonsense about you know

1:03.3

bocce ball or 1980s movies or any of that stuff we have a listener question we've

1:08.1

got to get right to it who do we have yeah we have Ronnie from San Diego.

1:13.0

You mean, San Diego is in the setting of the 1980s...

1:17.0

Careful.

1:18.0

Private investigator TV series?

1:20.0

It's about polar opposite twins Simon and Simon.

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