Ben Sooter
Director of R&D at the Electric Power Research Institute (EPRI), focused on research and innovation for reliable and affordable electric power, including work on micro data centers and grid-integration of AI workloads.
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Mar 4, 2026 • 32min
Powering the AI Inference Wave with EPRI's Ben Sooter - Ep. 292
Ben Sooter, Director of R&D at EPRI who works on innovation for reliable, affordable power, talks about how most AI energy is spent on inference rather than training. He describes micro data centers near underused substations to cut latency and boost resilience. He also covers distributed site clustering, grid integration strategies, and real-time low-latency applications.
