{"podcast":{"title":"Inevitable","slug":"inevitable-16764","podcast_index_feed_id":16764,"rss_url":"https://feeds.simplecast.com/XFfCG1w8","website_url":"https://www.mcj.vc/media/podcast","image_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/3ed8b08f-1a64-4843-8269-ab7f8b889e30/597bb585-5f6c-4b40-bc9e-acdf0f248ed9/3000x3000/inevitable_thematic_art_8.jpg?aid=rss_feed","author":"MCJ","episode_count":600,"summary":"Join Cody Simms each week as he engages with experts across disciplines to explore innovations driving the transition of energy and industry. Inevitable is an MCJ podcast. This show was formerly known as 'My Climate Journey.'","last_synced_at":"2026-07-21T18:19:09.100464+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inevitable-16764"},"episode":{"title":"Turning Wasted Renewable Power into AI Compute with Rune","slug":"turning-wasted-renewable-power-into-ai-compute-with-rune","published_at":"2026-02-17T10:00:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inevitable-16764/turning-wasted-renewable-power-into-ai-compute-with-rune","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inevitable-16764","url":"https://www.mcj.vc/media/podcast","audio_url":"https://cdn.simplecast.com/audio/a40ab607-6c05-44d6-b237-5cd4abd47ac6/episodes/f87b1795-db73-459f-a0b9-771bb05c9933/audio/bd8c7f2c-ca8e-43cf-9293-bae127226bc1/default_tc.mp3?aid=rss_feed&feed=XFfCG1w8","summary":"William Layden is Co-founder and CEO at Rune, a company building modular, behind-the-meter micro data centers that plug directly into solar and wind plants. These units operate on a fully electric, DC-to-DC architecture—bypassing the traditional grid and unlocking new economics for compute at renewable energy sites. In this episode of Inevitable, Layden explains how solar clipping and curtailment leave vast amounts of clean power stranded—and how Rune’s “RELIC” units turn that waste into usable compute. The conversation dives into DC architecture, Bitcoin as a beachhead market, and why traditional data centers are ill-suited to an era of distributed energy. Layden also unpacks why modular infrastructure may be the fastest path to deploying AI-scale compute at the edge of the energy transition.","meta_description":"William Layden is Co-founder and CEO at Rune, a company building modular, behind-the-meter micro data centers that plug directly into solar and wind plant…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":2358,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/inevitable-16764/episodes/turning-wasted-renewable-power-into-ai-compute-with-rune/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/inevitable-16764/turning-wasted-renewable-power-into-ai-compute-with-rune.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}