This week on the Yotta Podcast, Founder George Rockett sits down with David Quirk P.E., President & CEO of DLB Associates Consulting Engineers, to unpack the evolution AI is having on data centers. From data center design to the one megawatt rack, collaboration across industry is becoming more essential for overcoming challenges and driving progress. David shares his insights on software applications, new cooling technologies, operational efficiency, and keeping up with the rapid pace of technological advancement.

Senior Content Director Sarah Zilonis sits down with Miranda Gardiner, Executive Director of the iMasons Climate Accord, to discuss why a sustainable industry is closer than we think. They explore Miranda's unique perspectives and how the Climate Accord approaches bringing various companies together to work through challenges. They also dive into how energy demand for AI creates an exciting and more innovative problem-solving environment across the industry, where leaders and decision-makers have a unique opportunity to tackle the energy crisis head-on.

George Rockett is joined by Mark P. Mills—energy futurist, author, and Executive Director at the National Center for Energy Analytics—for a wide-ranging conversation on the future of power, compute, and regulation in the AI age. From the counterintuitive reality that efficiency fuels energy demand, to the evolving role of gas generation and the regulatory sprint to keep up, Mills offers his characteristically sharp take on where we’re headed.

George Rockett sits down with Kemal Hawa, Partner at Greenberg Taurig one the world's pre-eminent law forms for digital infrastructure transactions. Involved in many of the largest transactions the industry has seen, Kemal shares the view from his front row seat as deal sizes get much bigger. Gigawatt big.

George Rockett talks to Peder Naerboe, Founder and Executive Chair of Bulk Infrastructure, a progressive and highly sustainability-focused Norwegian data center operator, and then some. Peder personifies the Yotta idea of connecting the silos and, in this conversation, goes back to the beginning of his journey into the digital world. It's taken him from the logistics industry to massive data center zoning projects, and into the subsea world as he looks to unleash stranded power capacity in ex-industrial regions of the cold North.

George Rockett talks to data center industry 'rockstar' Christian Belady about a long and illustrious career that has taken him from thermal engineer to infrastructure lead at Microsoft and what life's like on the 'other side' advising DigitalBridge and other exciting businesses. They talk about post-PUE, nature-positive, and how the industry must adapt to the massive scale of infrastructure in this next wave of development.

Joe Reele is vice president of solution architects at Schneider Electric, and has a birds-eye view on the company’s journey to true net-zero by 2050. In this talk, he explores how Schneider and the rest of the industry are making meaningful progress towards sustainability goals in the face of changes brought on by AI through a variety of innovative technologies.

In our latest Yotta podcast, George Rockett sits down with Steffen Hellmold, director at Cerabyte, to talk about data storage technology. Cerabyte is pioneering a novel approach to long-term data retention using nano-scale ceramic "punch cards" inspired by ancient clay tablets. Hellmold, whose personal journey has taken him from tape drives to DNA storage, believes that Cerabyte has the X factor.

George Rockett talks to Yotta Advisory Board Member Chris Sharp, CTO of global colocation giant Digital Realty, about how the infrastructure that supports Gen AI will evolve from its infancy into a more mature—and hopefully efficient—deployment model. They discuss many of the issues that the Yotta conference program will explore, including future-proofing data center design, energy constraints, and how networks will evolve to cope with the massive data growth that comes with inferencing.