Economics of Building Data Centers, GPU Clouds, Sovereign AI

Economics of Building Data Centers, GPU Clouds, Sovereign AI

Author: Demetrios September 12, 2025 Duration: 45:59

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Craig Tavares, COO of Buzz High Performance Compute, shares lessons from building GPU cloud infrastructure worldwide. He stresses the role of sovereign mandates, renewable power, and modular cooling in scaling data centers, while highlighting NVIDIA partnerships and orchestration as key to sustaining AI workloads.


Guest speaker: Craig Tavares - COO of Buzz HPC

Host: Demetrios Brinkmann - Founder of MLOps Community


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