What it takes for gigawatt of power at 99.99% reliability | Google's Amin Vahdat

If you need a gigawatt at 99.99% reliability, you need one-plus-one redundancy, which means building two gigawatts, ideally clean, ideally right next to the data center. Amin Vahdat, head of AI infrastructure at Google, on the statistical multiplexing argument for partnering with utilities instead: spread the risk over a much larger base, feed power back to the grid at peak residential demand, and Google, the grid and the neighbors all win.