Solving the AI energy crisis (Interview)

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Greg Osuri, Founder and CEO of Akash Network joins us to share the backstory in his testimony before congress on the energy crisis and what it’s going to take to power the future of AI. From powering datacenters, to solar, decentralized AI compute, to zombies in SF.

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Featuring:

• Greg Osuri – Website, LinkedIn
• Adam Stacoviak – Website, GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X
• Jerod Santo – GitHub, LinkedIn, Mastodon, X

Show Notes:

• StartCluster Akash
• Base Power Company
• Pluralis AI
• Gensyn
• CoreWeave
• Akash Accelerate 2025 Livestream
• ICML Conference
• YouTube – Akash Accelerate 2025

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1. This week on The Changelog (00:00:00)

2. Sponsor: Auth0 (00:01:16)

https://auth0.com/ai

3. Start the show! (00:02:49)

4. How much energy do we need? (00:05:13)

5. AI is a utility (00:16:41)

6. Hot, flat, and crowded! (00:28:34)

7. Microreactors! (00:36:33)

8. Public sentiment on nuclear energy is shifting (00:38:59)

9. Sponsor: Depot (00:52:28)

https://depot.dev

10. Distributed AI workloads vs co-located (00:54:49)

11. Is nuclear in progress in the US? (00:58:47)

12. Inter-connect power limits (01:04:16)

13. Free power and free internet (01:07:54)

14. What is Gensyn? (01:14:54)

15. Foundational change to invert the demand curve? (01:23:31)

16. Plug us in. How do we follow the scene? (01:29:17)

17. UBI vs free internet/energy (01:39:17)

18. Handcoding as a hobby? (01:47:48)

19. Greg's AI-powered home in Austin/Westlake (01:53:31)

20. There's a BONUS!! (02:00:49)

21. Closing thoughts (02:00:57)