Andrii Garanin
Chief Energy & Infrastructure Officer | Co-Founder

RAW Protocol

USA

About

Andrii Garanin, Chief Energy & Infrastructure Officer at Silicon Foundation and Co-Founder of RAW Protocol, whose work focuses on AI compute infrastructure and the energy systems behind it. Andrii has more than 20 years of experience across energy and digital infrastructure. He leads large-load interconnection, front- and behind-the-meter storage, and demand flexibility across PJM and ERCOT, with a current focus on pairing large flexible loads with battery storage.
Talk

Andrii Garanin | The Hidden Infrastructure Bottleneck Behind AI: Power, Flexibility, and Financeable Compute

AI Infrastructure, Data Centers, Grid Flexibility, Energy Infrastructure, Project Finance

This session will examine one of the most critical but under-discussed challenges behind AI growth: the power infrastructure required to scale AI. Andrii Garanin will explore why AI data centers are no longer just compute facilities but also complex energy infrastructure projects shaped by grid constraints, power availability, flexibility, and project finance. Drawing on more than 20 years of experience across large-scale energy assets, battery storage, gas-to-power systems, and high-density compute, he will explain why the next phase of AI deployment will depend on financeable, flexible, and grid-aware infrastructure.

2026-11-27

13:10

13:55

Data Meets AI