Mark Benjamin
American filmmaker
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Aug 19, 2026
Powering What's Next - Where data centres, demand and decarbonisation collide
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Corrie MacLeodHOST
So can I start, Mark, just by asking yourself, like, a little brief background of your experience and the data center unit within GE Vernova, why it was set up, what it's there to do, and just observations about the sector as it's moving very quickly right now.
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1:50Mark BenjaminGUEST
So I come from a gas background, so we've been, you know, in Australia, the role of gas is effectively grid firming, right? So as we go through the decarbonization or energy transition journey, it's coal moving to renewables firmed by gas and, and increasingly we're seeing batteries play a role.
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2:09Mark BenjaminGUEST
The individual businesses within GE, so we have a, a power business, which is gas, where I belong, but also hydro and, and nuclear, which are maybe topical and not necessarily applicable for this market.
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2:22Mark BenjaminGUEST
But we also have a, a renewables business with onshore wind, and we have an electrification business, which is all the grid infrastructure and hardware and software that supports the operation of the grid.
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2:33Mark BenjaminGUEST
And with the growing data center space, we saw an opportunity where actually it takes all of us to go together, and all of the individual businesses interact with data centers at potentially at a different time, but we saw there was potential to, to actually work together and present a solution that's greater than, you know, the sum of our parts.
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2:51Mark BenjaminGUEST
So that's why we set up a team in Australia, and so far it's, it's early days, but it's been very, I think, successful in terms of just presenting a, a more broader GE Vernova solution into the market.
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Corrie MacLeodHOST
How do you see all of the pieces working together best from your perspective?