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A Refinery That Makes Tokens: Datacenter Power and Cooling
Fictional refinery electrical engineer Yusuf Haddad joins a hyperscale AI campus in the desert and finds substations, generators, cooling towers and gas turbines: a process plant whose product is computation. With cooling lead Coralie Brandt, he follows the watts in and the heat out. In episode one hundred and seventy two we go from the grid to the chip and from the chip to the sky. We see why AI racks have outgrown air and copper, how warm-water liquid cooling and 800-volt DC are reshaping the building, why grid connection is now the bottleneck, and what on-site gas means for emissions and…
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