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The Power Allocation — 57 episodes

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1

Europe's 176 Billion Euro Bet

2

The X-Energy NRC Setback

3

SMR Costs and the $182 Question

4

The White House Grid Pledge

5

Google's Geothermal Expansion

6

Duke Energy's 4.5 Gigawatt Data Center Portfolio

7

The 44 Gigawatt Gap

8

Meta's Billion-Dollar Indiana Campus

9

Kazakhstan's Gigawatt Ambition

10

The Real Timeline for Data Center Nuclear

11

Why Tech Giants Are Buying Nuclear Directly

12

Long-Duration Storage Changes the Renewables Equation

13

Fusion's Long Bet on Data Center Power

14

Geothermal's Quiet Rise in Data Center Power

15

The NRC Bottleneck for Advanced Nuclear

16

Westinghouse eVinci and the Truck-Delivered Reactor

17

NuScale's Pivot to AI Infrastructure

18

Oklo's Bet on Data Center Nuclear

19

Micro Reactors Are Coming Faster Than You Think

20

Heat Recovery Turns Data Centers Into Utilities

21

The Cabling Bottleneck You Haven't Heard About

22

15 Reactors Coming Online in 2026

23

Microgrids Are Becoming Primary Power

24

Liquid Cooling Hits 40% of AI Data Centers

25

The Permitting Problem Is Getting Worse

26

Meta Compute and the 5-Gigawatt Campus

27

Fuel Cells Just Became a $5 Billion Business

28

The Copper Crisis No One Is Pricing In

29

The $690 Billion Capex Arms Race

30

PJM Just Authorized Redirecting Data Center Power to Homes

31

Blackwell Changes Everything About Data Center Design

32

Why Texas Will Have 40 Gigawatts of Data Centers by 2028

33

The Labor Crisis Threatening the AI Buildout

34

Natural Gas Is Winning the AI Power Race

35

Europe Is Losing the Data Center Race

36

Why SMRs Won't Save Us Until 2030

37

The Middle East Enters the AI Infrastructure Race

38

OpenAI Says the Grid Can't Keep Up

39

The Water Problem No One Wants to Talk About

40

xAI's $20 Billion Bet on Mississippi

41

Liquid Cooling Becomes Mandatory

42

The Political Backlash Against AI Power Demand Is Here

43

Why Transformers Are the New GPUs

44

Meta Becomes the Biggest Nuclear Buyer in Big Tech

45

The Case for Grid-Independent AI Infrastructure

46

Inside Stargate — The 902-Megawatt Bet on AI Infrastructure

47

Why Google Just Paid $4.75 Billion for a Power Company

48

The Time Lag Capital Underestimates in Power Delivery

49

Why Renewable Power Alone Isn't Enough

50

Why Utilities Are the Quiet Kingmakers of AI

51

How Power Pricing Shapes Data Center Geography

52

Why Grid Interconnection Is the Real Bottleneck

53

What Hyperscalers Care About That Startups Don't

54

Why Land Is Back in the AI Equation

55

The Real Reason Data Centers Are Moving Locations

56

Why Compute Is Constrained by Electricity, Not Chips

57

AI Is a Power Problem, Not a Software Problem