Quartz Obsession
Hosted by Marco Pimentel · Quartz
4.9from 125 ratings
- 80
- Episodes
- 5
- Transcribed
- 125
- Ratings
- Weekly
- Cadence
- 2021
- First episode
About Quartz Obsession
AI needs more power, faster than America has ever built it. Power Play is a six-part investigation from Quartz into the bottlenecks, the fixes, and the economics at the core of AI development. Hosted by Marco Pimentel. Reported by Jackie Snow, Catherine Baab-Muguira, and Joseph Zeballos-Roig. New episodes releasing weekly from September 15.
- Publisher
- Quartz
- Category
- business · technology
- Language
- en
- Explicit
- No
- First episode
- 24 Sept 2021
- Latest episode
- 29 Sept 2026
Latest episodes
5 of 80 episodes have a transcript.
29 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Solutions
22 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
Balance
15 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT
AI wants your electricity
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Solutions
Published 29 Sept 2026 · Transcript excerpt
[…] We just helped pass this law in Virginia, which received bipartisan support. And what it does is it helps The utilities provide grid utilization metrics to their regulator for the very first time down to the substation and feeder level. And that allows you to really see where is there some extra capacity, where are things a little tighter, and where can we add new load to the system. And if you add new load to the system without having to make meaningful infrastructure upgrades, that actually lowers the cost. It makes it cheaper for everyone. And I think that's the exciting thing about this load growth moment is if we get it right, it could be a good thing for electricity costs, not a bad thing. […]
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- Apple Podcasts (US)
- 4.9 / 5
- 66 ratings
- Spotify
- 4.8 / 5
- 59 ratings
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