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Day 3 · Interview 05 of 1410:47 AM · Moscone West

Sankung Fatty

Founder, Rassket

Peak-load energy forecasting for utilities and data centers.

The full conversation

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The short version

3:00 · Sankung's answers, condensed.

Clips

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47% of Gambia has no power

“So I come from Gambia where 47% of the population don't have access to energy. And I feel like if I can contribute 1% in the energy sector, that is a big deal for humanity. Energy is the infrastructure that everything re…”

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You have to belong to a tribe

“You have to belong to a tribe, right? We were part of the accelerator in Tennessee called CoLab, right? That was sponsored by major utilities, including TVA, MTN, Seven State, all the major utilities. So we're solving th…”

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Miss the peak, pay the price

“We have data centers and utilities for their peak load energy forecasting. A lot of times energy that's being produced is not even needed, right? And 30% of these utilities and data centers, their whole revenue cost come…”

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You learn it by doing it

“For me, it's all about challenges. Solving something that it's very, very technical and deep and it can contribute a lot more to humanity, right? It's not been easy, right? It's a rollercoaster, right? And the way we do …”

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Not the algorithm. The architecture.

“The hardest part is not about the algorithm, it's about the architecture, right, and the data. So for us, we have both, our approach is combining both physics-based model with machine learning models to attain accuracy t…”

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At the booth

Team photos from the expo floor.

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