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Rooftop solar is the cheapest energy: a Texas ranch roof yields ~80 kW

Solving AI's Energy Crisis with Decentralized Compute, w/ Akash CEO Greg Osuri (The People's AI: The Decentralized AI Podcast)

“The cheapest is solar and a home and wind. Well, every house has a rooftop. We just don’t use a rooftop. Like in Texas, a typical ranch house has 4,000 square feet of rooftop. That generates about 80 kilowatt energy for six hours a day.” — 00:28:40

Context: After walking unit economics: Gen-3 nuclear ~15¢+/kWh, natural gas ~10¢, diesel 32¢. He then holds up a StarCluster prototype box with a 4090 GPU running at his home [00:29:27].

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