# Small modular data centers next to renewables — puzzle pieces, not megaprojects

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2025-11-04
- **Theme:** Energy & AI — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/
- **Source:** Sponsored Session: Powering PyTorch: Decentralized Training for an Energy-Hungry Future - Greg Osuri (PyTorch)
- **Watch at:** 00:16:15 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3nA1nAaLss&t=975s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/energy-ai/2025-11-04-small-modular-data-centers-next-to-renewables-puzz-myix/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Small modular data centers next to renewables — puzzle pieces, not megaprojects," Sponsored Session: Powering PyTorch: Decentralized Training for an Energy-Hungry Future - Greg Osuri (PyTorch), 4 Nov 2025, 00:16:15. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3nA1nAaLss&t=975s

## Quote — verbatim

> Now imagine scaling this with small modular data centers — containerized racks on campuses, in offices, or community sites parked next to solar, wind or hydro. Compute rides on local clean energy, slashing transmission losses, soaking up daytime solar peaks and spinning down at night. Instead of one 300 megawatt site, deploy \[thousands of small\] pods. Puzzle pieces, not mega projects.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

His sustainable-scaling vision; captions garble the pod arithmetic ("three 3,000 kilowatt pods").