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Industrials/Energy·Spring 2026
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Maximizing compute via hyper-efficient cooling

Overview

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Maximizing compute via hyper-efficient cooling

Why it's interesting

Market trends shaping Madrone

  • 1AI data-center load forcing utilities to rethink 20-year capacity plans
  • 2Behind-the-meter generation (gas, nuclear, solar+storage) booming
  • 3SMR and advanced nuclear getting first commercial offtake agreements
  • 4Long-duration storage moving past lithium for grid-scale economics
  • 5Virtual power plants aggregating distributed assets into dispatchable capacity
  • 6Geothermal benefiting from oil-and-gas drilling cost curves
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