AI Infrastructure & Energy
Data centers, energy, grid, sustainability, and scaling AI in production.
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Ep 81 - AI Needs Better Data: Agentic AI Foundations at Scale
AI agents are showing up everywhere, but most enterprises are discovering a frustrating truth: getting an agent to “work” in a demo is easy, getting it to deliver measurable value in production is brutally hard. We dig into why the bottleneck is shifting away fro
Ep 73 - The AI Race: Winner Takes All
The AI race is quietly changing shape, and if you’re still tracking it like a scoreboard of model releases, you’re going to miss the real winners. We step back from the noise and make the case that the decisive battleground is physical: electricity, chips, land,
Ep 67 - RAG Done Right: Measure The Evidence Or Drift Into Error
What happens when a brilliant-sounding AI gives the wrong answer with total confidence? We dig into the quiet culprit behind so many “LLM failures”: retrieval. Rather than judging how smart a model sounds, we walk through how to judge whether it looked at the rig
Ep 53: The Data Center Capital of the World — At What Cost?
The internet doesn’t live in the sky—it lives in a quiet corner of Northern Virginia, inside miles of windowless buildings that hum day and night. We pull back the curtain on how Loudoun County became the world’s data center capital, tracing the line from AOL’s d