The Hidden Energy Crisis Powering Your ChatGPT Search

Shawn Cutter, Founder & CEO of EnergiAcres, went from sixth-generation Ohio farmer to Discovery Channel reality TV star to selling his oil and gas software startup to Quorum before Series A. Now he's building circular energy infrastructure that pairs power plants with data centers and greenhouses to make energy count twice. We get into the grid crisis, the cloud vs on-prem debate, and whether data centers will ever make it to space.

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00:00 - Intro and guest background
01:24 - Sixth-generation farmer and family oil and gas roots
02:39 - The Discovery Channel reality TV show
07:44 - Building an oil and gas software startup
10:45 - Getting acquired by Quorum before Series A
15:39 - Life inside a big company post-acquisition
19:15 - Mistakes, pivots, and finding his way back
21:49 - What EnergiAcres actually does
24:07 - The data center power crisis.
28:20 - Energy mix and fixing the grid
31:13 - How data centers evolved and why power demand exploded
36:27 - Cloud vs on-prem and the cost reality
39:28 - Water usage and cooling problems
41:54 - EnergiAcres' greenhouse and circular energy model
45:23 - SMRs, space data centers, and what comes next

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