Data Center Richness
Data Center Richness
Podcast Description
Data Center Richness brings you expert insights on the world of data centers, cloud computing and AI infrastructure. Join respected industry expert Rich Miller for conversations that will help you understand the fast-moving world of digital infrastructure, and what it means to you.
Rich Miller is a journalist and analyst who has been tracking the data center industry for more than 25 years, explaining how data centers are central to the Internet, the AI revolution, and the energy transition. Rich founded and led two of the sector's leading publications (Data Center Frontier and Data Center Knowledge), and his insights have been featured in major media including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and The New York Times.
We bring you interviews with the top thought leaders and innovators building the digital economy. These conversations are particularly relevant for data center professionals and those in the energy industry, exploring the road ahead for AI infrastructure.
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The podcast covers a variety of topics including AI infrastructure, cloud computing, and energy solutions specifically focusing on the role of data centers in these areas. Episodes often explore themes such as the potential for nuclear-powered data centers, the challenges of clean energy integration, and workforce development in the data center sector, exemplified by discussions with industry leaders like Bill Kleyman.
Data Center Richness brings you expert insights on the world of data centers, cloud computing and AI infrastructure. Join respected industry expert Rich Miller for conversations that will help you understand the fast-moving world of digital infrastructure, and what it means to you.
Rich Miller is a journalist and analyst who has been tracking the data center industry for more than 25 years, explaining how data centers are central to the Internet, the AI revolution, and the energy transition. Rich founded and led two of the sector’s leading publications (Data Center Frontier and Data Center Knowledge), and his insights have been featured in major media including CNN, The Wall Street Journal, Wired, and The New York Times.
We bring you interviews with the top thought leaders and innovators building the digital economy. These conversations are particularly relevant for data center professionals and those in the energy industry, exploring the road ahead for AI infrastructure.
Verrus is a new data center company that is seeking to build the data center of the future. It is rethinking key aspects of how data centers are built, and how they interact with the power grid.
On this episode of Data Center Richness, host Rich Miller speaks with the leadership team at Verrus, an all-star team of data center pioneers who are rethinking the data center for 2025 and beyond. That includes new approaches to some of the huge challenges the industry faces around power and design.
Verrus is a company to watch in the next few years. It plans to use software, AI, and deep wells of engineering experience to improve how data centers interact with compute workloads and the power grid. It plans to create grid-interactive data centers that use energy storage and software to work more effectively with utilities, along with data center designs that optimize every watt at every point of the power chain.
Verrus is backed by Alphabet spinoff Sidewalk Infrastructure Partners, and much of the Verrus leadership team helped create Google’s hyperscale data centers. That includes my guests today, Nelson Abramson and Anand Ramesh, the CEO and CTO of Verrus, who will share about their experience at Google. All told, the Verrus team has deployed 13 gigawatts of data center capacity.
If you’re wondering what the future of data centers will look like, I think you’’ll enjoy today’s conversation. Here’s an overview:
00:00 – Intro: Rethinking the Data Center
02:10 -Who is Verrus? Meet Nelson Abramson and Anand Ramesh
04:45 – How Verrus plans to be different
07:20 – “Fundamentally re-evaluating” data center development
09:15 – Data centers as an anergy asset
12:11 – The role of energy storage in Verrus’ ambitions
15:25 – Design innovation at Verrus
17:00 – The utility relationship, and opportunities in load flexibility
22:00 – New structures and tools that can redefine utility relationships
28:30 – Power design, energy optimization and the Negawatt
44:10 – Data centers are fundamentally changing
At Data Center Richness we demystify technology and explain why data centers matter, and what comes next for the Internet, cloud computing and AI. Host Rich Miller is a journalist and analyst who has been covering the data center sector for 25 years.
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LINKS FROM THIS SHOW:
Verrus https://verrusdata.com/
Technical Report w NREL: The Data Center as a Flexible Grid Asset https://verrusdata.com/news/verrus-nrel
Verrus on LinkedIN https://www.linkedin.com/company/verrus/
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Data Centers, AI and the Future of Power https://youtu.be/EYo2YK7L5q0?si=0ae-RwdbBFQnRwJ8
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