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Solving the AI energy crisis (Interview)
Jul 31, 2025 · 2 hr 2 min · 176.7 MB
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Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Akash Network joins us to share the backstory in his testimony before congress on the energy crisis and what it’s going to take to power the future of AI. From powering datacenters, to solar, decentralized AI compute, to zombies in SF.
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- Greg Osuri – Website, LinkedIn
- Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
- Jerod Santo – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
Show Notes:
- StartCluster Akash
- Base Power Company
- Pluralis AI
- Gensyn
- CoreWeave
- Akash Accelerate 2025 Livestream
- ICML Conference
- YouTube – Akash Accelerate 2025
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- 0:00This week on The Changelog
- 1:16Sponsor: Auth0
- 2:49Start the show!
- 5:13How much energy do we need?
- 16:41AI is a utility
- 28:34Hot, flat, and crowded!
- 36:33Microreactors!
- 38:59Public sentiment on nuclear energy is shifting
- 52:28Sponsor: Depot
- 54:49Distributed AI workloads vs co-located
- 58:47Is nuclear in progress in the US?
- 1:04:16Inter-connect power limits
- 1:07:54Free power and free internet
- 1:14:54What is Gensyn?
- 1:23:31Foundational change to invert the demand curve?
- 1:29:17Plug us in. How do we follow the scene?
- 1:39:17UBI vs free internet/energy
- 1:47:48Handcoding as a hobby?
- 1:53:31Greg's AI-powered home in Austin/Westlake
- 2:00:49There's a BONUS!!
- 2:00:57Closing thoughts