The Cascade Thu, 02 Jul 2026 09:07:29 -0400 https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/omid-razbani en © 2026 The Cascade yes 215691b1-b38e-52e1-a341-55823e24c02e razbani.omid@gmail.com Omid Razbani episodic false Buzzsprout (https://www.buzzsprout.com) Omid Razbani razbani.omid@gmail.com https://storage.buzzsprout.com/6ulffn53g73ug6spblqpprtjty46?.jpg The Cascade https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/omid-razbani Episode 1: When the Cloud Meets the Grid Episode 1: When the Cloud Meets the Grid We think of the internet as weightless — cloud storage, streaming, AI tools floating somewhere in the digital ether. But behind every search, every prompt, every uploaded file, there is a very large building, full of machines, drawing enormous amounts of electricity from a grid that was never designed for them.

In this episode, we look at a recent emergency order in the United States that gave grid operators the authority to cut power to data centers to prevent blackouts — and what that signal tells us about the collision between two infrastructures built on completely different logics.

We cover why the electricity grid and the data center industry are on a collision course, what systems thinking reveals about how this happens, and why this story is just as relevant in Norway, Ireland, Sweden, and anywhere else the global AI buildout is landing.

Concepts covered: tight coupling, mismatched tempos, hidden dependencies, suboptimization.

]]> We think of the internet as weightless — cloud storage, streaming, AI tools floating somewhere in the digital ether. But behind every search, every prompt, every uploaded file, there is a very large building, full of machines, drawing enormous amounts of electricity from a grid that was never designed for them.

In this episode, we look at a recent emergency order in the United States that gave grid operators the authority to cut power to data centers to prevent blackouts — and what that signal tells us about the collision between two infrastructures built on completely different logics.

We cover why the electricity grid and the data center industry are on a collision course, what systems thinking reveals about how this happens, and why this story is just as relevant in Norway, Ireland, Sweden, and anywhere else the global AI buildout is landing.

Concepts covered: tight coupling, mismatched tempos, hidden dependencies, suboptimization.

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