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As a 15-year Google veteran now building the "brain" of the future grid, Astrid Atkinson, CEO of Camus Energy, knows what it takes to make the leap from Big Tech into climate-tech entrepreneurship. In this Down to Zero episode, Florian Dahlhausen and I pick Astrid's brain on lessons learned during the journey, and nerd out on all things grid-tech. Some highlights: ⚡ On why grid-tech is necessary NOW: "We're moving from a one-way grid where centralized power gets consumed by end users, to one with decentralized generation and a lot of activity on the local network - EVs, batteries, solar, etc. We need a management model that can handle that." ⚡ On the parallels between managing supply and demand for energy on the grid with the technology approaches developed at Google: At Google, Astrid's role was to manage a physical internet work. With the grid, it's also a physical network with physical network constraints. Catch Astrid’s ‘generalized theory of infrastructure development’ on the ep! ⚡ On why AI may not be an immediate panacea: "For large-scale, high reliability (you want zero failures) automation like for the grid, you wouldn't normally start with AI. AI is fundamentally taking in data and then producing probability-based rather than certainty-based outcomes." Read on and listen to the episode to hear more about the topics above, and also hear Astrid's actionable advice for Big Tech folks looking to make the leap! #climatetech #ai #entrepreneurship https://lnkd.in/g88aeYfj
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