Sustainable Datacenter's for AI, with Walt Coulston (Founder/CEO of GreenSquareDC)

Walt Coulston is the Founder/CEO of GreenSquareDC, with extensive experience in property development and investment. He began his career at JLL, founded Coulston Group, and co-founded CK Group. GreenSquareDC is Walt's latest focus, which concentrates on sustainable, AI-enabled data centers, emphasizing renewable energy, water positivity, waste heat reuse, and AI integration for operational efficiency.
In the fourth episode of Tech Insider, Walt and I discuss data centers, sustainability, and the high-energy needs of Artificial Intelligence (AI), offering a unique perspective from our base in Australia and insights into the Southeast Asian market.
Enjoy.
Chapters:
0:00 Introduction to GreenSquareDC
10:09 Relationships and Business Acumen
13:03 Elements of a Datacenter
15:40 How to implement Sustainability
19:30 Embodied carbon
21:30 Next-gen cooling
23:39 Power, Water, Carbon Utilization Effectiveness (PUE/WUE/CUE)
27:12 Energy and the Energy Market in Australia (Renewables, Power Purchase Agreements (PPA))
34:45 AI and Geographic considerations
37:06 Nuclear power
42:00 Supply of energy, and distribution
46:50 Market reaction to new entrant
50:51 Ideal customers
54:22 AI Boom
57:57 Datacenter Expansion
59:25 AI Boom Part 2
1:02:15 Edge 2.0
1:03:39 Recap and wrap
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