Data center power consumption
Subject in Technology
Data center power consumption has come up in 1 episode across 1 podcast in TMT, including Lex Fridman Podcast. 1 person has made recorded remarks about it.
What people said
Jensen HuangNvidia CEO who described GPUs as fungible, durable revenue-generating assets
Huang proposes that data centers use the power grid's idle excess capacity by accepting graceful degradation during rare peak demand.
“And so 99% of the time, our power grid has excess power and they're just sitting idle”
Lex Fridman Podcast: #494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI Revolution (Mar 23, 2026) · Listen from 54:09
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- Lex Fridman Podcast · 1 episode
Episodes
#494 – Jensen Huang: NVIDIA – The $4 Trillion Company & the AI RevolutionLex Fridman Podcast · Mar 23, 2026
Lex Fridman interviews NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang on extreme co-design, CUDA, AI scaling laws, supply chains, power, China, TSMC, jobs, AGI and mortality.