Kirk Offel

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Data Center Revolution · Ep 147: Why Data Centers Will Rebuild the Middle Class with Greg Genung - Part 1 · 12 May 2026 podcast

Because we stopped using horses and started using horses.

automobiles right so an emerging technology will always kind of replace things much like airbnb i'm sure had an impact on the hotel industry and i'm sure that uber had an impact on the taxi industry and we're scared to death as a nation on what ai is going to do to us but again i want to go back to as much as you're comfortable talking about because you do have an incredibly technical background

that gives you a lot of credibility as a domain expert in AI, right?

If you didn't mind, I know that there's stuff that you probably can't talk about, but once you came with a broad stroke, how did you become a super nerd?

So...

Back then, there was no degree for that anyway, because whatever you'd start learning your freshman year would be obsolete by the time you graduated.

So you have to immerse yourself.

Where were you learning these skills?

Where were you learning this stuff?

Were you working for...

Technology companies, were you working for governments?

Were you doing a little bit of everything?

So was the genesis behind Snowfire where you and the boy band that used to play for, they all, you guys used to, I get the sense that most of you guys probably worked together in past life.

Yeah.

So when you guys were sitting around, you're like, you know what, dude, we're going to go create something that's going to compete against something that already exists.

Or we're going to go, there's pent up demand for a solution that doesn't exist.

And we're going to go create one.

Okay, so walk us through what that means.

What do you mean by that executive layer?

Is it because we're the most removed from the front lines, so to speak?

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