In April, I attended an SF Climate Week panel on the ways in which artificial intelligence solutions could support the transition to net zero electricity. When the session opened for comments, I was a bit surprised that the first ten audience members confronted the four panelists with variations of the exact same pointed question: “Aren’t your data centers going to overwhelm the electric grid and ensure climate disaster?”
When Bruce and I were initially discussing what Halcyon would become, the question of what data and information to prefer in our ingestion processes, at first, was important. Perhaps I did not help matters much when Bruce asked me “what information do you want?” and I responded “all of it.”
Every asset has value. In the energy world, we can define that value in multiple ways.
This entry of Machine Readable is by Sam Steyer, Head of Data Science & Head of Customer Success at Halcyon
I am not a management consultant, nor was I ever one (nor, as the old advertising trope goes, did I play one on TV1). That said, enough time in the information business has given me a sense for the value of mental models and heuristic devices to help us understand complex systems.
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