Friedberg provides specific numbers showing California fires have burned 10% of forest acreage so far.
“Forests make up about a third of our land. So far, we're we're burning three and a half million, so about 10% of our acres.”
“At that time, probably the largest we were known to be the largest users of Amazon's Elastic Compute Cloud because we were ingesting so much data to build these models that related all the variables of farming and the weather to predict outcome.”
Friedberg says Climate Corp was the largest known user of Amazon's cloud and filed FOIA requests for farming data.
“In fact, we did federal Freedom of Information Act requests for the federal government in The U. S. To get hard drives and hard drives of data.”
Friedberg recalls buying 17 megabytes of weather data on CD-ROM for $10,000 in 2006 when founding Climate Corp.
“when I started Climate Corp 2006, the first thing I did when I got a seed check to start the company is I went out and bought weather data, and I bought it from a company called RMS that sold weather data. The sales guy was a guy named Jeff Hamlin.”
Friedberg estimates 30 to 40 percent of US workers are employed by or depend on government spending.
“I tried to pull together all this data a couple months ago, but something north of like 30 or 40% of The US working force is touched by the government as a customer of their business, the primary customer of their business or as the employer of those individuals.”
Friedberg paid $10,000 for 17 megabytes of weather data in 2006, illustrating how data costs have plummeted.
“So you could put it a spreadsheet. It cost me $10,000 to buy that CD ROM. It was 17 megabytes of data.”
Friedberg recounts buying a CD-ROM with 30 years of weather data for 200 stations when founding Climate Corp.
“I'll give him a shout out because he still works at Climate Corp to this day I hired him after so he sold me a CD ROM of weather data.”
Friedberg recalls buying weather data on CD-ROM for $10,000 when starting Climate Corp in 2006.
“The sales guy was a guy named Jeff Hamlin. I'll give him a shout out because he still works at Climate Corp to this day.”
Friedberg paid $10,000 for 17 megabytes of weather data in 2006, now equivalent to two iPhone photos.
“It was 17 megabytes of data. That's like as much data as you get when you take a photo on your iPhone now or two photos on your iPhone pretty much.”