AI data centers make power demand jump in milliseconds. The grid can't keep up, and ratepayers get the bill.

Nate Walkingshaw, founder and CEO of Torus, has a fix already spinning: a multi-ton steel flywheel in a vacuum, one of TIME's Best Inventions of 2024, now part of a 500-megawatt agreement with PacifiCorp.

Nate was a paramedic making $7.14 an hour when he started inventing. Stryker bought his company when he was 29. Then came the Pluralsight IPO, a Christmas tree farm that could make its own power but couldn't store it, and a flywheel equation his sons worked out at home.

In this episode:

• The argument with a utility CEO that redirected the company: "You have no idea what you have."
• Why a GPU load looks like an EKG, and why a power plant 300 miles away can't keep up with it
• From 33 dispatches a year to 500: how one utility went from teacher to biggest customer
• The 33 gigawatts Nate says we could free up tomorrow, without building a single power plant
• Inside GigaOne, where new hires go from $22 an hour to six-figure programming jobs
• "We're the Sudafed of the grid"

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