NVIDIA on Whether AI Can Fix Its Own Power Problem | Recorded Live at Climate Week NYC
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AI data centers are straining the grid. NVIDIA and Phaidra say part of the fix is more AI: software that runs the cooling, data centers that ease off when demand peaks, and chips that do more with every watt.
This episode was recorded live at The Nest Campus during Climate Week NYC. Jigar and Jamie talk with Josh Parker, head of sustainability at NVIDIA, and Jim Gao, co-founder and CEO of NVIDIA-backed Phaidra.
In this episode:
- An AI agent that predicts heat spikes on CoreWeave's NVIDIA chips and stops them before they hit
- Why NVIDIA is cooling its chips with 113°F coolant to cut water use
- Whether AI needs gigawatt-scale data centers, or GPUs on the side of a house
- How half a percent of flexibility could free up about 100 gigawatts on the US grid
- The cost of adding 12 hours of battery backup to a $125 million data center
- What it would take for a data center to lower its neighbors' power bills
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