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In this episode of The Frontier State Dialogues, I host Ravi Jain, former CTO of Project Tapestry at X the Moonshot Factory (formerly Google X), to explore how AI and advanced technologies are transforming the century-old electric grid. Tapestry, described as the "Google Maps for electrons," represents a moonshot approach to modernizing our most critical infrastructure at a time when it faces unprecedented challenges.

The timing couldn't be more crucial. As Ravi explains, the electric grid - the world's largest machine - is experiencing two fundamental disruptions: an explosion in demand driven by electrification and AI data centers, and the rapid integration of renewable energy sources that require bidirectional electron flow, something the grid was never designed to handle.

Key Themes

Our wide-ranging dialogue explored several critical aspects of grid modernization and innovation: