Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Erwan Menard spent six years at Google, where he most recently worked as director of product management for Google's Cloud AI services. Six months ago, he left to join Crusoe Cloud as senior vice president of product management. Crusoe Cloud, which offers everything from hosted cloud services to renewable power sources, is best known for operating the Stargate 1.2 gigawatt data center campus in Abilene, Texas. In this interview, Menard discusses the advantages of designing cloud data centers from the ground up to support AI workloads, and how the industry can meet exploding demand for data center resources, including power, as technology evolves.
Featuring: Erwan Menard (linkedin.com/in/erwanmenard/) , senior vice president of product management, Crusoe Cloud
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
• Challenges and opportunities in AI cloud services
• Technical differences in neocloud and public cloud networks
• Gaining enterprises' trust in neoclouds
• Keeping AI data centers sustainable
and more!
References:
• Cloud infrastructure suffers AI growing pains (techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/news/366638851/Cloud-infrastructure-suffers-AI-growing-pains)
• GenAI drives $119B cloud revenue in Q4 (techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/news/366638805/GenAI-drives-119B-cloud-revenue-in-Q4)
• AI will heavily influence cloud-related decisions in 2026 (techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/feature/AI-will-heavily-influence-cloud-related-decisions)
• Upstart cloud provider Railway turns heads with speed (techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/news/366637659/Upstart-cloud-provider-Railway-turns-heads-with-speed)
To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations (techtarget.com/searchitoperations/) .
To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech (youtube.com/@HealthcareStrategies) .
Erwan Menard spent six years at Google, where he most recently worked as director of product management for Google's Cloud AI services. Six months ago, he left to join Crusoe Cloud as senior vice president of product management. Crusoe Cloud, which offers everything from hosted cloud services to renewable power sources, is best known for operating the Stargate 1.2 gigawatt data center campus in Abilene, Texas. In this interview, Menard discusses the advantages of designing cloud data centers from the ground up to support AI workloads, and how the industry can meet exploding demand for data center resources, including power, as technology evolves.
Featuring: Erwan Menard (linkedin.com/in/erwanmenard/) , senior vice president of product management, Crusoe Cloud
In today’s episode, we’ll cover…
• Challenges and opportunities in AI cloud services
• Technical differences in neocloud and public cloud networks
• Gaining enterprises' trust in neoclouds
• Keeping AI data centers sustainable
and more!
References:
• Cloud infrastructure suffers AI growing pains (techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/news/366638851/Cloud-infrastructure-suffers-AI-growing-pains)
• GenAI drives $119B cloud revenue in Q4 (techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/news/366638805/GenAI-drives-119B-cloud-revenue-in-Q4)
• AI will heavily influence cloud-related decisions in 2026 (techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/feature/AI-will-heavily-influence-cloud-related-decisions)
• Upstart cloud provider Railway turns heads with speed (techtarget.com/searchcloudcomputing/news/366637659/Upstart-cloud-provider-Railway-turns-heads-with-speed)
To learn more about software development and platform engineering, check out Search IT Operations (techtarget.com/searchitoperations/) .
To watch clips from our podcast, subscribe to our YouTube channel, @EyeOnTech (youtube.com/@HealthcareStrategies) .
