Chamath Palihapitiya

And you were in so early that when you were looking at data center space in the United States,

You were one of one looking at the space, one of two or three people looking at the space.

They were trying to sell you on space, yeah?

Yeah, I don't think anybody could have predicted when ChatGPT came out, OpenClaw recently as a turning point, and then Microsoft, Google, and everybody embracing this.

And that's your big partner, Microsoft.

And when you do these build-outs,

The big conversation today is no longer the number of GPUs putting in, it's just power.

Power is the constraint today, yeah?

And time to compute means tradespeople coming to West Texas

living in a trailer that you set up to then break ground on a data center, build foundations, build water cooling systems like this is hard manual labor going on.

And you get to spend time there.

What's it like when you set up a town or you bring 1,000 people or 2,000 people to what's a pretty much remote small town?

I'm assuming that when you bring 1,000, there might only be 500 living there right now.

So what are those towns like?

It sounds to me like something out of the gold mining era when people first went and were prospectors.

That's very thoughtful.

Yeah.

And these folks are coming, say an electrician or a construction worker.

They're coming having built houses or, you know, maybe building corporate offices.

And now they come for a tour of duty here and the salaries go up massively.