This episode explores the high-stakes, debt-fueled AI infrastructure race led by Elon Musk’s XAI and its Colossus data centers, revealing how financial engineering, environmental concerns, and community resistance in Memphis expose the fragility and moral cost of an unbounded pursuit of a
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