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aWordWithWard: Season 2 Episode #11 Paul Hopkins

Ward Hampton sits down with Paul Hopkins, founder of OLH Ventures and PowerPath, for a fascinating journey through 30 years of data center history - starting with the deal that changed everything. Paul shares his remarkable story: stumbling into the internet industry as a classics major at NetCom when "the information superhighway was just starting," joining Exodus in 1997 during the dot-com gold rush with perfect timing, and in 1998 getting a lead to call "these guys from Google" (everyone thought it was a really weird name). He reveals meeting Sergey Brin and Larry Page at Stanford where they showed him their data center in the Stanford lab, signing a deal for a two-rack private cage with 12kW total power packed with Sun SparcStations strapped together - and learning these guys were so smart they knew Exodus's business model better than Exodus did, figuring out power was the most important aspect when everyone else thought it was real estate. Paul discusses riding through two Exodus Chapter 11 bankruptcies (learning data centers keep running but nobody wants to do business with you), moving to DuPont Fabros in 2010 where he signed Apple as anchor tenant for their 36MW Santa Clara facility (filled with Microsoft and Dropbox), running US sales for Colt Data Centres (putting Tokyo's Inzai on the map as the data center hub), joining CloudHQ when Hussein was building 100MW data centers in 2019 and correctly predicting 400-500MW campuses were coming. Now running OLH Ventures as a fractional CXO company with his brother Neil (25-year Hollywood actor who created the satirical "Hot Racks" newsletter that's become a cult following), and launching PowerPath to "shorten the path to power" by packaging renewable energy projects including Project Eden in Idaho - 1.7GW of solar, potential 500MW geothermal, planned 5GW hydro dam, and working with Idaho Power (whose entire state grid is only 3.5GW). Paul tackles the industry's critical blind spot: hyperscalers no longer have demand signals because "the fire hose is always open," they're getting less choosy about grid connections and behind-the-meter solutions, but not enough people are actually solving the power problem - everyone talks about the shortage but time is everything, and until nuclear arrives, the industry needs creative renewable solutions now because there's literally not nearly enough supply for demand. -- GET IN TOUCH -- ▹Visit our Website:- https://thewayofward.com/ ▹LinkedIn:-   / ward-hampton-b15a4a28