The Yotta Podcast
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This is the Yotta Podcast hosted by Founder, George Rockett, interviewing experts from across the digital infrastructure landscape on what the future holds for this dynamic industry at a time of explosive growth. Yotta is a ”bold” new event platform that’s been created as a catalyst for a crucial new conversation that spans the full digital infrastructure ecosystem. The Yotta mission is to support a more integrated and holistic approach to the issues of scale and sustainability that are being redefined in the age of accelerated compute. This will be a platform where the data center, compute, network, telecoms, storage, cloud and other digital infrastructure ”tribes” can come together to build trust and understanding. The inaugural event will take place at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, October 7-9, 2024.
Episodes
Episodes
Friday Aug 09, 2024
Episode 9: "Fine Tuning" the Industry's Sustainability Journey
Friday Aug 09, 2024
Friday Aug 09, 2024
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.
Friday Jul 26, 2024
Episode 8: The 10,000-year Data Storage Solution
Friday Jul 26, 2024
Friday Jul 26, 2024
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.
Saturday Jun 22, 2024
Episode 7: How Will AI Compute Evolve in 2025 and Beyond?
Saturday Jun 22, 2024
Saturday Jun 22, 2024
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.
Friday Jun 07, 2024
Episode 6: The Modern Technology Tower of Babel
Friday Jun 07, 2024
Friday Jun 07, 2024
George Rockett talks to a friend and industry veteran, Bill Angle, Co-founder of leading New York IT consultancy, CS Technology, about his journey through the world of digital infrastructure, as he likes to put it, "looking backward can often help us with how to deal with the future."
The discussion looks at the 'whys' and 'hows' of the first concurrently maintainable data center he built for the United Parcel Service in 1994, which laid the blueprints for Tier IV data centers and the world's first low-latency trading platform for the NYSE.
Who knew that the biblical tale of Babel's Tower has so much to do with the objectives of Yotta!
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Episode 5: The Balance Between CPUs and GPUs in Powering AI
Friday Apr 05, 2024
Friday Apr 05, 2024
In this episode, George Rockett is joined by Jeff Wittich, chief product officer at Ampere Computing, a semiconductor company with an innovative approach to CPU design focused on high-performance, energy-efficient and sustainable cloud computing. Ampere signed on as an early Yotta supporter, in part because of Jeff's belief in the need to break down the silos that currently plague the digital infrastructure industry. In this episode, you'll learn about the inception of Ampere, Jeff's take on industry dynamics and why Ampere is urging the industry to "Get Over GPUs," calling them, "overpriced, overpowered and overkill."
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Episode 4: Nuclear-Powered Data Centers
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Thursday Mar 07, 2024
Oklo's Caroline Cochran, COO, and founder, and Head of Business Development Brian Gitt dive into Oklo's journey from its inception at Y Combinator to its pioneering role in nuclear energy innovation, its approach to micro-nuclear reactors, safety features, and the strategic partnership with Sam Altman's AltC for public listing.
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Episode 3: The Future of "Cooler Chips"
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Friday Feb 02, 2024
Peter De Bock and Rakesh Radhakrishnan from the U.S. Department of Energy's ARPA-E discuss technological breakthroughs that will fundamentally change the way we use, generate, and store energy. Take a deep dive into their recent investment of $42 million in the Cooler Chips program, which targets a 90% reduction in cooling energy use.
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Episode 1: Digital Infrastructure's Great Revolution
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Thursday Jan 04, 2024
Mark P. Mills, author of "The Cloud Revolution", shares his insights on the cloud revolution and its relation to power and digital infrastructure demands. Explore the intersection of technology and energy production to learn how advancements will revolutionize our approach to energy consumption.
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Where: MGM Grand | Las Vegas
When: October 7-9th, 2024
At Yotta 2024, senior leaders and solution providers will get together to learn and make connections that will hasten the digital infrastructure convergence that’s already underway. And they’ll leave with the “a-ha” insights and connections required to imagine, and then build, a world that meets tomorrow’s challenges.