From Bitcoin Chicken Coops to Billion Dollar AI Data Centers
Show notes
Lance and Eric welcome their first guest, Josh Bennett, COO of Data Airflow, fresh off a three week road trip through four data center sites in upstate New York, Kentucky, and the Permian Basin.
Josh shares his path from a warehouse job at 17, no college, to running commissioning operations on billion dollar builds, and explains the least understood job in the industry. His teams try to break data centers on purpose, with load banks and test scripts, proving every backup system works before the servers arrive.
From the road, the guys cover the half gigawatt AI campus rising where an aluminum smelter died 15 years ago, the cleanup nobody else would have done, the Bitcoin mining chicken coop days the industry grew out of, a West Texas town of 900 transformed by its tax base, and the closed loop water misconception almost everyone gets wrong.
Plus the Wyoming fill and flush story that became a cautionary tale for the whole industry, and why the talent shortage in the trades may be a bigger constraint than power.If you use your phone, you use a data center. Get to know what's good and what's bad.
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