From ESS News
At CES 2026 in Las Vegas, Marco Krapels, SVP and chief marketing officer at Enphase Energy, stood with ESS News in front of Enphase’s new bidirectional EV charger to discuss the topic of distributed energy generation and data centers, the “sleeping giant” of EVs, and why bankability can underpin confidence in grid flexibility.
First layer of the “Jensen Cake”
For Krapels, there exists an enormous opportunity within close reach as he identifies the connection between Silicon Valley’s AI ambitions and the data center buildout and distributed solar. He cites a framework used by Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang at his press conference held a day earlier.
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