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What’s Cooking – Episode 1: Pizza, AI, and the Power Behind It All

Pizza and AI walk into a kitchen … what could possibly go wrong?

That’s the setup for the very first episode of What’s Cooking, our new video podcast where great food meets great conversation. In this premiere episode, host Mike Markowitz fires up the oven, and the tech talk, with special guest Maurizio Di Paolo Emilio, Ph.D., physicist and smart-power guru at Efficient Power Conversion (EPC).

What’s on the Menu

Between slices of pizza, Mike and Maurizio dig into a question that matters more every day: what does it actually take to keep AI systems running? As it turns out, pizza and processors have more in common than you’d think, both need exactly the right kind of heat to perform at their best.

The conversation covers the power electronics driving the AI boom, the engineering challenges behind keeping high-performance systems cool and efficient, and what’s next for smart-power technology as AI workloads keep climbing.

The Big Questions

Of course, no pizza conversation is complete without settling the classics:

  • Thick crust or thin crust, which one actually wins?
  • And the debate that never dies: does pineapple belong on a pizza?

Watch Now

Come for the cheese pulls, stay for the power electronics. Grab a slice and join Mike and Maurizio for the first episode of What’s Cooking.


What’s Cooking is a video podcast about the conversations that happen best over good food. New episodes coming soon.