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Hosted by Compass Chief Customer Officer, Raymond Hawkins, Not Your Father’s Data Center doesn’t only talk about data centers, but anything and everything of interest in our industry.
82 episodes · publishes monthly · latest 2026-07-14 · ~38 min/episode
Rank
#186
Substance
78.0
/ 100
Breakdown
Scored 2026-08
Updated monthly
General rank
#20 of 134
Across the index
#186 of 1878
Substance
Top 10%
outscores 90% of the index
Not Your Father’s Data Center ranks #186 on The B2B Podcast Index with a substance score of 78.0 out of 100, scored across 1 recent episode. It scores highest on guest caliber and specificity & evidence. David Porter is a genuinely relevant senior practitioner - VP of Electrification and Sustainable Energy Strategy at EPRI with 17+ years, a mechanical engineering background, and direct leadership of the DC Flex initiative working with hyperscalers and grid operators.
Averaged across 1 recently scored episode, with cited evidence.
Contains genuinely useful explanations of grid mechanics (transmission vs. distribution, frequency regulation, the DC Flex five-level flexibility framework) but is diluted by extended biographical intro, layman recaps, and a long golf tangent that closes the episode.
“it's transmission capacity, um, that is the constraint”
“five different levels of flexibility”
The reframing of data centers from pure off-takers to grid assets (islanding, backup gen as grid resource, load-growth lowering prices) is a fresh and somewhat contrarian angle, though much of the grid explanation is educational-basic rather than novel thinking.
“data centers have been a pure off taker of energy from the grid”
“where states have load growth, average electricity prices are going down”
David Porter is a genuinely relevant senior practitioner - VP of Electrification and Sustainable Energy Strategy at EPRI with 17+ years, a mechanical engineering background, and direct leadership of the DC Flex initiative working with hyperscalers and grid operators.
“Vice President of Electrification and Sustainable Energy Strategy with epri”
“I've been with EPRI now for, it'll be 17 years next month”
Offers concrete figures (voltage ranges, 15%/10% peak stats, 7-10 year transmission timelines, HVO emission ranges) and named examples (Winter Storm Uri, Iberian Peninsula blackout, Compass Texas testing), but many claims - especially the affordability data - are gestured at rather than quantified.
“transmission typically runs between 100,000 volts all the way up, in some cases to 765,000 volts”
“in the 8 to 10% range. But the big difference is in particulate emissions”
The host asks decent clarifying questions and keeps a technical thread going, but the tone is friendly and promotional with no pushback - notably lobbing a softball on the affordability 'third rail' and inviting the guest to skip anything uncomfortable, then ending in an extended golf chat.
“You don't have to comment if you don't want to, but I'd love to hear from a third party if I'm too far off base there”
“This podcast may get just reduced to those 20 seconds”
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