AI Data Centers: 101

Join us for our June Clean Tech Calgary speaker event with Wish Bakshi.

Start Time: 4:30
Date: June 24th, 2025
Where: The Ampersand Building; 500, 112 4th Avenue SW Calgary T2P 0H3 AB CA

Topic:

AI Data Centers: 101
Join Wish, a leading AI Systems Engineer and Founder, as he demystifies the engineering and energy demands of AI data centers. With xAI’s Colossus housing 200,000 Nvidia GPUs and plans for centers exceeding 1 million, the scale is unprecedented.

Wish will break down the critical steps— from grid integration to power plant design to next gen Nvidia GPU Data Centers—and explore challenges across the value chain. Drawing on his expertise in power systems, AI Data Centers, and commodities trading models for North American energy markets, he’ll reveal how AI data centers impact the grid, energy markets, and costs. Learn what it takes to build these technological giants and their role in shaping energy’s future.

Speaker Bio

Wish is a Founder & AI Systems Engineer specializing in AI solutions for energy companies in Texas and Alberta and a Visiting Professor of A.I. at the University of Calgary and Queen’s University – Smith School of Business.

His expertise lies in four primary domains: Power Plants, AI Data Centers, LNG Operations and Commodities Trading.

Wish has designed AI systems for power plants, LNG analytics and load forecasting models for data centers. In commodities trading, Wish has led the development of intelligent trading systems for natural gas and power in North American markets including Texas, California and Virginia.

This involves modelling power requirements for power generation companies and their commercial exposures and supply agreements with AI data center customers.

Event Sponsor: Avatar Innovations
Avatar Innovations is a ground-breaking initiative generating, implementing and funding energy innovation. By empowering leadership inside heavy industry to champion disruption, Avatar fills the needed gap in the innovation ecosystem to truly create a new energy future. The Avatar Program has 3 inter-connected and related structures: The Avatar Program, an energy technology entrepreneurship leadership development program, the Avatar Studio, an energy sector specific business and technology accelerator and Avatar Ventures, an energy innovation venture capital fund.