# Wasted renewable overage in Texas can power Akash data centers

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2022-01-05
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Updates From the Lab 1/5/22 W/Akash (Osmosis)
- **Watch at:** 00:56:05 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk1P5-n2w8k&t=3365s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2022-01-05-wasted-renewable-overage-in-texas-can-power-akash-7bsy/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Wasted renewable overage in Texas can power Akash data centers," Updates From the Lab 1/5/22 W/Akash (Osmosis), 5 Jan 2022, 00:56:05. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mk1P5-n2w8k&t=3365s

## Quote — verbatim

> Texas has an unregulated grid and there's a lot of overage compute power that comes from renewables in Texas. Folks that have infrastructure that can utilize this overage from renewables can effectively run data centers for profit, because most of the cost in a data center is cost for cooling — which is electricity, not the actual compute.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

He continues: "right now renewables' overage has to be wasted... [Compute North] data centers are located next to these windmills... that can effectively come on Akash... if you think renewables are the future and if Akash solves the overage problem, why not" (00:57:30). Early energy-compute convergence argument.