on the hunt for cannabis farms and electrical grid stability
summary
Nexus claims DevOps and data science cut waiting lists and avoid blackouts by shifting demand instead of just expanding cables, running a cloud-native platform since 2018 using Kubernetes and Terraform to deliver namespaced stacks and automated pipelines. The grid handles ~3 million electric connections and >5 million IoT devices, with ~1.1 million homes injecting power; analytics scan 22,000 substations to prioritize upgrades and flag unexpected losses to fraud teams, including locating illegal grows, processing petabytes down to ~3 TB/week.
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chapters (9)
- 0:00Grid stability and cannabis farms
- 3:59Nexus role in Dutch grid
- 7:56Energy transition challenges
- 12:10DevOps at Nexus
- 15:45Data science and DevOps
- 18:19Grid upgrades with data science
- 20:05Hunting cannabis farms
- 21:53Data platform for energy transition
- 22:14DevOps culture takeaways
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