Ex-Tesla SVP Drew Baglino breaks down how a data center burns a gigawatt of power
wandb · x · 2026-08-18
On the latest Weights & Biases podcast, Heron Power founder/CEO and ex-Tesla SVP Drew Baglino explains the energy reality of data centers: of a gigawatt of power, roughly 700MW becomes waste heat and another 300MW goes to cooling — an energy pipeline from grid to chip that leaks compute at every step. He covers how Heron Power is re-engineering grid infrastructure to address it.
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