Powering the AI Inference Wave with EPRI's Ben Sooter - Ep. 292

“the training loads would slam hundreds of megawatts of, of demand, you know, nearly instantly within milliseconds. And they can also fall off once that job is done.”

“we seem to be coalescing somewhere around, um, this idea of, of 20 megawatts. Um, but that's actually sort of, I, I hadn't gotten into some of the, the electrical aspects of all this, but as we're looking at where to place these micro data centers, 20 megawatts is, can be the not insignificant ask, um, of just dropping, dropping a load somewhere onto the grid.”

“you're probably going to find three to five megawatts, maybe up to 10 megawatts of available capacity in a single substation.”