Episodios

  • Episode 86 - Power from below (geothermal energy) with Ben King, Rhodium Group
    Sep 4 2025

    In this episode, we chat to Ben King, associate director with Rhodium Group's Energy & Climate practice, who provides an in-depth look into the US geothermal sector.

    We explore the exciting world of enhanced geothermal power and how, if scaled, it could provide enough energy to meet skyrocketing data center demand across the US.

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    42 m
  • Episode 85 - Making critical infrastructure think with Jad Jebara, Hyperview
    Aug 21 2025

    AI is changing how data centers operate, and particularly in the case of retrofit facilities, it is more important than ever that operators have all the data they need to ensure uptime.

    We talk to Jad Jebara, CEO and president of Hyperview - an AI-powered DCIM provider - about some of the pitfalls data center operators are falling into as they handle more demanding workloads, and how a surprising number of operators are still actually using Excel for capacity planning.


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    36 m
  • Bonus episode - Clouds and AI inference, with Cirrascale's CEO David Driggers
    Aug 15 2025

    What does it take to run a cloud provider in 2025?

    We chat to David Driggers about Cirrascale, a company older than the neoclouds, but without the deep pockets of the hyperscalers, about how the company is carving its own path in an increasingly crowded market.

    Plus, we hear about the current AI inference market, and where growth opportunities lie.

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    53 m
  • Episode 84 - Small modular solutions to big power problems with Harry Keeling, Rolls Royce SMR
    Aug 7 2025

    In this podcast episode, we speak to Harry Keeling, head of business development - new markets at Rolls Royce.

    Listen in to hear more about the rise of small modular reactors, Rolls Royce SMR’s business model, and the potential of SMRs in powering the data center sector.

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    44 m
  • Episode 83 - Data sovereignty and cloud competition in the UK, with Mark Boost, Civo
    Jul 24 2025

    With global political uncertainty, data sovereignty has become a key conversation for governments, enterprises, and cloud providers alike.

    In this episode, we talk to Civo’s Mark Boost about the importance of data sovereignty - as well as establishing a definition - and how this links to the ongoing issue of increasing competition in the cloud market beyond the US hyperscalers.

    We also touch on how the UK’s CMA investigation, and whether such anticompetitive investigations really go far enough.


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    37 m
  • Episode 82 – Pivoting from crypto to AI colocation with Core Scientific's Matt Brown
    Jul 10 2025

    In this episode, we talk to Core Scientific COO Matt Brown about the company’s pivot away from housing cryptomining rigs to hosting GPUs for the likes of AI cloud firm CoreWeave.

    We talk about the wider crypto market and why the move to AI hosting is becoming so common, the rise of the neoclouds and why they’re willing to work with companies that might not be used to working to Tier III-quality uptime requirements, and Matt’s own experience coming to the crypto space from world of traditional colo.


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    46 m
  • Episode 81 - Telecom tower opportunities in Africa and the Middle East with Sainesh Vallabh, Helios Towers
    Jun 12 2025

    In this episode, we talk to Sainesh Vallabh, group chief commercial officer, Helios Towers, about the company’s strategic focus to drive tenants to its mobile tower infrastructure.

    Sainesh explains the company’s plans for the year, opportunities to look at new markets, and the challenges that Africa and the Middle East present for Helios.


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    24 m
  • Episode 80 - Old blighty with Mike Hoy, Pulsant
    May 29 2025


    In this episode, we are staying in the editorial team’s home county - the UK. Pulsant is a regional Edge provider focusing on the UK market, and has recently launched a new Sovereign Cloud offering.

    We talk with Pulsant’s CTO Mike Hoy about the data center industry in the UK in the context of the Labour government, how enterprise strategies are changing in relation to cloud deployments, and discuss the ongoing CMA investigation into the cloud services market.


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    27 m