The Yotta Podcast

Unleashing Power: From Logistics to Data Center Innovation

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.

Episode 10: New Ways to Build Out at the Scale of AI

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.

Episode 9: "Fine Tuning" the Industry's Sustainability Journey

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.

Episode 8: The 10,000-year Data Storage Solution

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.

Episode 7: How Will AI Compute Evolve in 2025 and Beyond?

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.

Episode 6: The Modern Technology Tower of Babel

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!

Episode 5: The Balance Between CPUs and GPUs in Powering AI

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."

Episode 4: Nuclear-Powered Data Centers

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.