Latest / Connecting the Dots / SpaceX's IPO Debut, Anthropic's Massive Compute Deal, and xAI's Environmental Hurdles
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- 0:00Today's tech news moves fast, but understanding
- 0:03it shouldn't be hard. That's why Snarfle Solutions
- 0:06Group brings you Connecting the Docs, where we
- 0:09break down what's happening in tech and why it
- 0:11matters to you. Now, let's dive in with your
- 0:14hosts. What if the brain of the artificial intelligence
- 0:19you use every single day, you know, to draft
- 0:22your emails or write your code or plan your vacations?
- 0:26What if it isn't actually located on Earth? Right,
- 0:28like what if the next time you type a prompt
- 0:29into that clean little white box on your screen?
- 0:32the server doing all the heavy lifting is actually
- 0:34floating 300 miles above your head. Orbiting
- 0:37in the freezing, completely silent vacuum of
- 0:41space. Well, welcome to Connecting the Dots coming
- 0:44to you directly from Snarfl Solutions Group right
- 0:46here in Sacramento, California. I'm Alex. And
- 0:48I'm Morgan. And it is a beautiful Thursday morning,
- 0:52May 21, 2026. And, you know, we have an absolutely
- 0:57massive just. Mind -bending show lined up for
- 1:00you today. We really do. It's it's a huge news
- 1:02day. It really is But first let's get you caught
- 1:05up on everything you need to know before you
- 1:07head out the door today Taking a look at the
- 1:09national weather. It is well It's a very busy
- 1:11day for meteorologists across the country right
- 1:13now for sure lots going on. Yeah, there are currently
- 1:16311 active US weather alerts and 101 of those
- 1:21are situated over land. So definitely check weather
- 1:23gov if you are traveling today or you know how
- 1:26Family flying in always good to double check
- 1:28that exactly and locally here in Sacramento.
- 1:31It's gonna be an absolute scorcher Yeah, I felt
- 1:34it this morning already. Yeah, we're looking
- 1:35at completely sunny skies a high of 96 degrees
- 1:40Fahrenheit and like very light winds blowing
- 1:42at maybe 1 to 10 miles per hour So, you know
- 1:45keep that AC running definitely and Looking at
- 1:48the financial markets. It was a truly historic
- 1:50close yesterday. I mean the Dow Jones Industrial
- 1:53Average finally broke that massive psychological
- 1:56barrier. Oh, it finally happened. It did. It
- 1:58closed at 50 ,009 .35. That is just incredible
- 2:00to see that 50k mark finally cross. Right. It's
- 2:03up 660 .52 points, or about 1 .34%. The S &P
- 2:08500 also had a very solid day. Right. It closed
- 2:10at 7 ,432 .97, which is up just about 64 .87%.
- 2:17Awesome and over in the crypto world Bitcoin
- 2:20is hovering this morning at let's see seventy
- 2:23seven thousand one hundred and forty two dollars
- 2:25So it's down slightly by about point four three
- 2:29percent over the last 24 hours, but you know
- 2:31still holding really strong Yeah, still a huge
- 2:33number and just wrapping up with a quick look
- 2:35at sports from yesterday It was well, it was
- 2:38a tough night for the SF Giants. Ouch. Yeah Yeah,
- 2:41they fell to the Arizona Diamondbacks three to
- 2:43six better news for the Oakland Athletics though.
- 2:46They They edged out the Los Angeles Angels six
- 2:49to five. Nice. And the Sacramento Kings. They
- 2:52enjoyed a well -deserved night off. Good for
- 2:54them. All right. Well, let's set the agenda for
- 2:56today's tech report, because we are dedicating
- 2:58our entire focus to one massive, just multi -trillion
- 3:02dollar earthquake that basically just hit Wall
- 3:04Street this morning. Yeah. It's all anyone is
- 3:06talking about. Right. I'm talking about the SpaceX
- 3:08IPO filing that just dropped. Over the next few
- 3:10minutes, we are going to show you how this document
- 3:12reveals a wild web of, well, space -based data
- 3:15centers, secret billion -dollar Bitcoin holdings,
- 3:18a jaw -dropping $15 billion deal with a direct
- 3:21AI rival. Which is just insane to think about.
- 3:24Seriously. And a massive on -the -ground environmental
- 3:28controversy unfolding right now in Memphis, Tennessee.
- 3:31It is just a fascinating look at how the digital
- 3:34cloud is colliding incredibly hard with our physical
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- 3:56let's unpack this SpaceX IPO filing because for
- 3:59anyone listening who might not be a huge finance
- 4:01junkie, an S1 is essentially the massive disclosure
- 4:04document a company has to file with the Securities
- 4:07and Exchange Commission before they go public,
- 4:09right? Exactly. It's where they basically have
- 4:10to lay all their cards on the table. You can't
- 4:12hide anything in an S1. Right. And SpaceX has
- 4:14officially filed to list on the NASDAQ under
- 4:16the ticker symbol SPCX. But, I mean, the numbers
- 4:20we're seeing here are almost hard to comprehend.
- 4:22They really are. I mean, they are aiming for
- 4:24a valuation somewhere between $1 .5 trillion
- 4:27and $2 .5 trillion. Which is just like the GDP
- 4:31of a major country. Oh, easily. If they hit that,
- 4:34it would potentially be the largest initial public
- 4:36offering in the history of the market. But the
- 4:39sheer size isn't even the most interesting part
- 4:41of the document, if you can believe that. Really?
- 4:44What stands out more than $2 trillion? Well,
- 4:47when you read through these 250 plus pages, the
- 4:50company explicitly reframes itself. Like they're
- 4:53no longer just pitching themselves as a rocket
- 4:56company or, you know, a satellite internet provider.
- 4:59Oh, interesting. So what are they calling themselves
- 5:01now? They are pivoting hard to become an AI.
- 5:05infrastructure giant. Right and that pivot is
- 5:08exactly what caught my eye because you look at
- 5:10their core business and it's doing incredibly
- 5:12well but then you look at their bottom line and
- 5:14they are bleeding cash. Yeah, the math is kind
- 5:16of shocking at first glance. Can you, like, break
- 5:18down the actual revenue numbers they reported
- 5:20for us? Absolutely. So in 2025, they generated
- 5:24$18 .7 billion in revenue. Which is huge. Huge.
- 5:29And the lion's share of that, about $11 billion,
- 5:32was driven by their 10 .3 million Starlink subscribers.
- 5:35Right, everyone has Starlink now. Exactly. But
- 5:38despite bringing in almost $19 billion, they
- 5:42still posted a net loss of $4 .9 billion for
- 5:46the year. Wait, a loss of almost $5 billion?
- 5:48How do you lose that much when you're pulling
- 5:50in $19 billion? Well, the culprit is massive,
- 5:53unprecedented spending on AI infrastructure.
- 5:56The filing argues this core thesis, and it's
- 5:59a quote, the future of AI will be determined
- 6:01by the control of the physical stack. Okay, let's
- 6:05explore this idea of the physical stack because
- 6:07I think most of us listening are used to thinking
- 6:09about artificial intelligence as while pure software
- 6:12Right. It's just code in the cloud to most people
- 6:15exactly. It's an app on our phone It's a chat
- 6:17bot we talked to its code But this s1 is basically
- 6:20saying that the software isn't the real battlefield
- 6:23anymore, right precisely the algorithms are becoming
- 6:26somewhat commoditized. Like, everyone has a smart
- 6:28chatbot now. The real bottleneck holding back
- 6:30the future of AI is physical hardware. So we're
- 6:33talking about, like, the actual physical things
- 6:35that make it run. Yes. It's having enough silicon
- 6:38chips, enough electricity to power those chips,
- 6:41and the massive networking cables to connect
- 6:43them all. SpaceX is aggressively weaving together
- 6:47its reusable rocket business, its Starlink satellite
- 6:50network, and the massive XAI supercomputers into
- 6:54one unified industrial engine. And that leads
- 6:57us to the part of this filing that honestly sounds
- 6:59like it was ripped straight out of a sci -fi
- 7:01novel, but is apparently a very real, very heavily
- 7:04funded business strategy. Yeah, this part blew
- 7:07my mind. Right. They outline plans to launch
- 7:09solar powered orbital AI compute satellites as
- 7:13early as 2028. We are literally talking about
- 7:16launching data centers into outer space. Literally
- 7:19into orbit. But why on Earth, or I guess, why
- 7:21off Earth would you go through the immense trouble
- 7:23and expense of putting a server rack into orbit?
- 7:26It sounds completely absurd, right, until you
- 7:28look at the pragmatic physical limitations we
- 7:30are hitting down here on the ground. Like what?
- 7:33Well, terrestrial power grids are completely
- 7:35tapped out. Data centers require gigawatts of
- 7:37electricity, and we are simply running out of
- 7:39places to plug them in. You can't just build
- 7:42a nuclear plant overnight. that's true but in
- 7:45space you have constant unfiltered solar power
- 7:49there's no atmosphere blocking the sun and there
- 7:51is no night cycle if you position the orbit correctly
- 7:54you just get endless free energy Okay, but I
- 7:57know how hot my laptop gets just rendering a
- 7:59simple video. If you put a massive supercomputer
- 8:02in space where there is no air to blow across
- 8:05the processors with a cooling fan, how do you
- 8:07keep the chips from just melting into slag? That
- 8:10is where the engineering gets so fascinating.
- 8:12Because you are in a vacuum, you can't use traditional
- 8:16convection cooling. There's no air to blow around.
- 8:18Instead, they are utilizing technology they've
- 8:21already proven on their Starlink satellites,
- 8:24vapor chambers, and active cooling loops. How
- 8:26does a vapor chamber work? Exactly, I'm trying
- 8:28to picture this. Think of it like a sealed metal
- 8:31sponge, okay? And it's filled with a tiny bit
- 8:33of liquid. When the AI chip gets hot, the liquid
- 8:37right next to it boils and turns into vapor.
- 8:40Okay, makes sense. That vapor then travels to
- 8:42a cooler part of the chamber, facing the cold
- 8:44vacuum of space, dumps its heat, turns back into
- 8:47a liquid, and wicks right back to the chip to
- 8:50do it all over again. Oh, wow. Yeah. It's a closed
- 8:53loop that requires zero moving parts and zero
- 8:56air. By moving compute to orbit, they bypass
- 8:59our planet's terrestrial power and thermal constraints
- 9:01entirely. That is absolutely mind -blowing, the
- 9:04sheer audacity of it. And because they build
- 9:06their own reusable rockets, they actually have
- 9:08the delivery mechanism to afford to put it up
- 9:10there. No other AI company can do that. Wow.
- 9:14And, you know, speaking of audacity, tucked away
- 9:16in this futuristic blueprint was another massive
- 9:19financial revelation that is making huge waves
- 9:22this morning. They are apparently sitting on
- 9:24a dragon's hoard of cryptocurrency. They really
- 9:27are. The S1 confirmed that SpaceX quietly holds
- 9:3018 ,712 Bitcoin. Just quietly sitting on it.
- 9:33Yeah. They bought it back in 2021 for roughly
- 9:36$661 million, meaning their average purchase
- 9:39price was about $35 ,320 per coin. And with Bitcoin
- 9:43hovering around $77 ,000 this morning, what is
- 9:46that position worth today? It's right around
- 9:48$1 .45 billion. But what's truly remarkable for
- 9:52the financial world here is the discipline. They
- 9:55just held it. Diamond hands, basically. Exactly.
- 9:59Through the entire brutal crypto bear market,
- 10:02without buying more, without panic selling, without
- 10:05making a big public spectacle of it. it just
- 10:08sat silently on their balance sheet with third
- 10:10-party custodians. That's fascinating. Yeah,
- 10:13it shows retail investors just how heavily capitalized
- 10:16and diversified the company's assets really are
- 10:18heading into this IPO. So let's actually talk
- 10:21about those retail investors for a second because
- 10:23if you're listening to this on your morning commute
- 10:25and your eyes just glazed over at the thought
- 10:28of corporate filings, stay with me. Because this
- 10:31next part directly affects anyone thinking about
- 10:33putting this stock into their retirement portfolio
- 10:36or just buying a few shares on an app. Definitely
- 10:38pay attention to this part. Yeah, because the
- 10:40governance structure outlined in this S1 is raising
- 10:42a lot of eyebrows. To put it mildly, yes. Yeah.
- 10:45So if you buy Class A shares of SPCX, which is
- 10:49what the public will buy, you get one vote per
- 10:52share. OK, standard stuff. Right. But Elon Musk
- 10:55is going to retain 85 .1 % of the total voting
- 10:58power through Class B shares. which get 10 votes
- 11:02each. Furthermore, he has the right to elect
- 11:05a majority of the board of directors, regardless
- 11:07of how the public votes. There are zero cash
- 11:10dividends planned for the foreseeable future,
- 11:13and by qualifying as a Nasdaq -controlled company,
- 11:16they are legally exempt from standard independent
- 11:19corporate governance requirements. That is wild.
- 11:22And honestly, the lawsuit provision is the craziest
- 11:25part to me. Like, explain the mechanism here,
- 11:27because the document mentions restrictions on
- 11:30derivative lawsuits. What does that actually
- 11:32mean for the average person buying, say, 10 shares?
- 11:36Well, a derivative lawsuit is essentially when
- 11:37shareholders sue the company's own executives
- 11:40on behalf of the company, usually for something
- 11:42like breach of fiduciary duty or mismanagement.
- 11:45Basically, if the CEO does something crazy with
- 11:47the company's money, the shareholders can sue
- 11:48to stop it. Normally, yes. But SpaceX's filing
- 11:51states that to even initiate one of these lawsuits,
- 11:54you have to own at least 3 % of the outstanding
- 11:56common stock. Wait, hold on. Let's do the math
- 11:59on that. If the company is valued at $2 trillion,
- 12:033 % is $60 billion. Exactly. You would need to
- 12:07rally $60 billion worth of shareholder alignment
- 12:10just to follow the basic paperwork. That's impossible.
- 12:14It practically is. And even if you somehow did
- 12:16that, You have to do it in a specific Texas court
- 12:19with mandatory arbitration, and you explicitly
- 12:22waive your right to a jury trial. Okay, so let
- 12:25me get this straight. Buying a share of SPCX
- 12:28is basically like buying a ticket to a concert,
- 12:31but the lead singer explicitly tells you up front
- 12:34that they might use your ticket money to build
- 12:36a submarine instead of playing music. Right.
- 12:39And by the way, you aren't allowed to complain
- 12:40about the acoustics. And if you do want to complain,
- 12:42you have to prove you bought a billion dollars
- 12:44worth of tickets first. The concert analogy is
- 12:47close, but honestly, it's even more extreme than
- 12:49that. It's like buying a ticket to a concert.
- 12:51But the ticket explicitly says the artist can
- 12:53legally lock the doors, not play a single note,
- 12:56use your money to build that submarine, and you
- 12:58legally waived your right to ask for a refund.
- 13:00Wow, just wow. You aren't buying a traditional
- 13:03stock where management answers to shareholder
- 13:05quarterly demands. You are actively, willingly
- 13:09bankrolling a specific founder's vision for the
- 13:11future of infrastructure, space, and AI. If you
- 13:15believe in the vision, you're in. If you want
- 13:17to say in the boardroom, this absolutely isn't
- 13:20the stock for you. Okay, so XAI is losing $5
- 13:23billion a year building out all this wild space
- 13:26hardware and physical infrastructure. Where's
- 13:28the cash actually coming from to pay for all
- 13:30this right now? Because the S1 reveals they are
- 13:33basically renting out their massive AI supercomputers
- 13:36to their direct rivals. Let's unpack this because
- 13:38this is where the numbers get truly staggering.
- 13:41The S1 revealed that Anthropic, which is the
- 13:44AI lab that makes the Clawed chatbot a fierce
- 13:47direct competitor to XAI's own Grop chatbot.
- 13:50Right, they're huge rivals. Very huge. Well,
- 13:53Anthropic has signed an agreement to pay SpaceX
- 13:561 .25 billion dollars per month through May of
- 14:002029. Wait, I'm sorry, a billion point two five?
- 14:02Per month, per month. That works out to roughly
- 14:0415 billion dollars a year. That is just, I can't
- 14:07even wrap my head around that number. Anthropic
- 14:09is paying this eye -watering sum just to rent
- 14:12physical space and computing power at SpaceX's
- 14:15Colossus One and Colossus Two data centers located
- 14:18in Memphis, Tennessee. So when I'm using Claude
- 14:21at work to summarize a PDF or draft an email,
- 14:24what is that actually costing these companies
- 14:26behind the scenes? We just see a clean white
- 14:29interface, but what's the reality? The reality
- 14:31is an absolute financial furnace. The numbers
- 14:34in this S1 show that XAI lost $2 .4 billion in
- 14:38just the first quarter of 2026 alone. Just the
- 14:41first quarter? Yeah. They spent roughly $7 .7
- 14:44billion on physical infrastructure in just three
- 14:46months. That puts them on a massive $30 billion
- 14:49a year run rate. And that explains the anthropic
- 14:51deal perfectly, doesn't it? It goes back to that
- 14:53physical hardware bottleneck we discussed earlier.
- 14:55There simply isn't enough raw computing power,
- 14:57specifically these high -end AI chips, to go
- 15:00around. Exactly. It is forcing fierce competitors
- 15:02to literally share the exact same physical hardware.
- 15:06Right. SpaceX has built this massive compute
- 15:08cluster, but they don't currently have the internal
- 15:11consumer demand to use it all themselves. partly
- 15:14because usage of their own grok chatbot has reportedly
- 15:18dropped. So they are acting as what the tech
- 15:21industry calls a neocloud provider. They are
- 15:24taking all that unused overbuilt hardware and
- 15:27monetizing it by renting it to the competition.
- 15:30It's like building a 100 room mega mansion that
- 15:32you absolutely can't afford the mortgage on.
- 15:35So to keep the bank from foreclosing, you end
- 15:37up renting 80 of those rooms out to your biggest
- 15:39rival, the guy you're actively trying to beat
- 15:41in a neighborhood competition. Wild. It is wild,
- 15:45but it's a brilliant move when you view it through
- 15:47the lens of this IPO. How so? Well, Wall Street
- 15:50hates seeing idle assets, especially when those
- 15:52assets cost billions of dollars and are depreciating
- 15:54every single day. This is what the S1 calls a
- 15:58dual monetization strategy. By securing a guaranteed
- 16:01$15 billion a year from Anthropic. XAI is showing
- 16:05public investors that even if their own consumer
- 16:08chatbots stumble, they have built a highly lucrative
- 16:11cloud infrastructure business that acts as a
- 16:14solid floor for their revenue. Moving on to our
- 16:17next story, let's look closer at the terrestrial
- 16:19reality of this deal because you can't just plug
- 16:21a $15 billion server farm into a standard wall
- 16:24outlet. No, you definitely cannot. Right. To
- 16:27generate all that computing power that Anthropic
- 16:29is renting, XAI needs electricity. And that is
- 16:32causing massive friction on the ground right
- 16:34now in Tennessee. When we talk about a gigawatt
- 16:37of power for these Colossus data centers in Memphis,
- 16:39we really have to pause and put that scale into
- 16:41perspective. Please do, because a gigawatt just
- 16:43sounds like a Back to the Future reference to
- 16:45me. Right. Imagine taking the entire power draw
- 16:48of a major metropolitan city like, say, San Francisco.
- 16:52funneling all of that electricity into a single
- 16:55windowless warehouse complex. That's terrifying.
- 16:58The local Memphis power grid simply cannot supply
- 17:01that much juice on demand. They blow the grid.
- 17:04So XAI has resorted to generating its own power
- 17:06on -site using natural gas turbines. And they
- 17:09are really doubling down on this. The IPO filing
- 17:11reveals that XAI is planning to spend another
- 17:142 .8 billion dollars on new natural gas turbines
- 17:16over the next three years. And this is all happening
- 17:19directly amidst a major federal lawsuit of the
- 17:22air pollution. This is where the abstract futuristic
- 17:25concept of the cloud collides very harshly with
- 17:28local communities. The NAACP has filed a lawsuit
- 17:31against XAI for running unregulated gas turbines.
- 17:35Unregulated. When nox reacts with sunlight, it
- 17:42creates ozone, which is a major contributor to
- 17:44asthma -inducing smog. That's awful. And this
- 17:47is happening right in Memphis' Boxtown District,
- 17:49which is an area that has already historically
- 17:51struggled with industrial pollution and degraded
- 17:53air quality for a long time. The numbers in the
- 17:56lawsuit are really striking, too. The organization
- 17:58points out that XAI has state permits to operate
- 18:0115 of these turbines. But as of recent reports,
- 18:05they are currently operating 46 of them. Almost
- 18:07triple what's permitted. Right. And each of these
- 18:10industrial turbine types has the potential to
- 18:12emit thousands of tons of pollution annually.
- 18:15So how exactly are they getting away with running
- 18:18triple the number of permitted industrial generators?
- 18:21It comes down to a highly contested legal and
- 18:24regulatory loophole. SpaceX and XAI are officially
- 18:27claiming that these turbines are technically
- 18:30mobile equipment. Mobile? They weigh tons! Yes,
- 18:34but why? Because they are literally still sitting
- 18:36on the flatbed truck trailers they were shipped
- 18:38on. You're kidding! I'm not! The legal argument
- 18:41is that because they are mobile units on wheels,
- 18:44they are exempt from the standard state -permitting
- 18:46processes required for stationary power plants.
- 18:49Wait, wait, wait. So if I take my entire house,
- 18:51put it on wheels, and just leave it parked on
- 18:52a flatbed trailer in my front yard, Do I magically
- 18:55not have to pay property taxes or follow local
- 18:58zoning laws? I mean I wouldn't try it but that's
- 19:00the logic. How does putting a massive smog belching
- 19:03industrial power turbine on a truck trailer make
- 19:07it exempt from the Clean Air Act? That is exactly
- 19:09the pushback the Environmental Protection Agency
- 19:11is giving. The EPA has stepped in and stated
- 19:14that regardless of whether the turbine is sitting
- 19:16on a trailer with deflated tires or bolted permanently
- 19:20to a concrete foundation, equipment of that massive
- 19:23size and emission output is subject to federal
- 19:26air pollution regulations. That seems like common
- 19:28sense. Right. They ruled earlier this year that
- 19:31XAI is operating in violation of federal law.
- 19:35Now, SpaceX explicitly acknowledges this regulatory
- 19:38risk in the S -1 filing, noting that if they
- 19:41face injunctions, it would adversely affect their
- 19:43AI business. But they are still buying more.
- 19:46Exactly. The fact that they are committing another
- 19:48$2 billion specifically for more of these mobile
- 19:50gas turbines shows they intend to fiercely contest
- 19:53this interpretation in court. It really brings
- 19:56the whole thing down to earth for you as a listener.
- 19:59Like, while working professionals and tech companies
- 20:01everywhere are benefiting from this incredible
- 20:04cutting -edge AI software to make their lives
- 20:06easier, it's local communities, like the residents
- 20:09in Memphis, who are bearing the physical, environmental
- 20:13brunt of this AI arms race. A heavy price. It
- 20:16is. They are the ones dealing with the degraded
- 20:19air quality so that the servers can keep humming.
- 20:21It perfectly illustrates the core thesis of SpaceX's
- 20:25own IPO filing, really. The competition in artificial
- 20:29intelligence is no longer just about who has
- 20:31the smartest software engineers writing the best
- 20:33code. Right, it's moved way past that. It's about
- 20:36who can navigate physical transmission bottlenecks,
- 20:39electrical grid shortages, supply chain constraints,
- 20:41and as we are seeing in Memphis, mounting political
- 20:44and legal resistance to massive physical infrastructure.
- 20:48Before we wrap up, a quick thanks to Old Glory,
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- 20:56for 15 % off at oldglory .com. To tie all these
- 21:00threads together today, this SpaceX filing really
- 21:03is a roadmap for the next decade of technology.
- 21:06We started by unpacking their futuristic vision
- 21:09of deploying AI data centers into the cold vacuum
- 21:12of orbit to escape Earth's power limits. Which
- 21:15still sounds like a movie plot to me. Oh, entirely.
- 21:17But then we looked at the staggering financial
- 21:20reality of today, where companies like Anthropic
- 21:23are paying $15 billion a year just to rent space
- 21:26on existing supercomputers. And finally, we landed
- 21:29on the very real, very grounded smog and legal
- 21:32battles happening in Memphis right now over the
- 21:35natural gas turbines needed to keep those computers
- 21:37running. It paints a vivid picture of an AI industry
- 21:40that is accelerating so fast it is colliding
- 21:43hard with the physical limits of our planet.
- 21:45It really is a stark reminder that every time
- 21:47you interact with the digital world, you know,
- 21:49there is a physical machine somewhere spinning,
- 21:53consuming immense power, and taking up space.
- 21:56Which leaves us with a final provocative thought
- 21:58for you to chew on today. As artificial intelligence
- 22:02becomes deeply permanently embedded in our schools,
- 22:05our jobs, and our critical infrastructure, how
- 22:08comfortable should we be that a single entity
- 22:10is attempting to control the entire physical
- 22:13stack? That's the big question. Right. From the
- 22:16energy generation, to the massive compute power,
- 22:18to the satellite internet connection, to the
- 22:21reusable rockets that launch them, all under
- 22:24a corporate structure where the public has absolutely
- 22:26zero voting power. It is definitely something
- 22:29to think about the next time you ask an AI to
- 22:31write an email. For sure. We're here to help
- 22:33at Snarful, so reach out on our website if you
- 22:34have any more questions. Thanks for listening
- 22:52and we'll catch you next time.