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Ep. 258 - Anthony Romanello: Henrico Said "No" a Lot. That's Why We're There. (opens the original)
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Henrico turned people away from White Oak for years — the crypto guys, companies waving billions. Anthony Romanello had a hand in most of those calls, and he retired from Henrico in January, so he can finally tell me how they made them. Turns out the community was vetting us the whole time. Chapters: 00:00:06 Chapter Two After 34 Years 00:08:56 Frito-Lay Chips, Not Semiconductors: How White Oak Happened 00:11:57 When the Conversation Turned Political 00:14:58 The Landscape Changed and Nobody Exp
Ep. 257 - José Luis Friebel: Data Centers Love Plumbers (opens the original)
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José Luis Friebel got into data centers by accident — second job interview in London, start tomorrow, we've got a conference in six months. Best accident of his life, he says. He told me the thing slowing this whole build-out down isn't power. It's plumbers. I did not expect that. Chapters 00:00:00 From a sunny coastal town in Spain to the global data center business 00:07:13 Why an industry that built the cloud still doesn't talk to itself 00:12:08 The panel where somebody says "you're full of
Ep. 256 - Jake Dukes: On Good Neighbors and Cucumbers That Taste Like Kit Kats (opens the original)
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Jake Dukes runs programs at Zac Brown's camp for veterans and kids. Years ago he came to me and said he didn't want to talk about money or sponsorship — he wanted us to show up. I stayed till one in the morning. Their chef is also unreasonably good. Chapters 00:00:06 Pastor, camp, and a friendship that started on a beach 00:04:29 The mission: find what makes a person unique, then magnify it 00:07:30 What a data center has to do with a camp in Georgia 00:12:22 Warrior Week, Warrior Path, and the
Ep. 255 - James Brogan: The Most Important Number on a Job Site That No One Is Measuring (opens the original)
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When James told me the best early warning for a job-site injury isn’t a safety number, I said what you’re probably thinking — that’s ridiculous, and how would you even measure it? What came next changed how I look at it. Come find out what the number is. Chapters: 00:00:00 A Gaelic footballer walks into a data-center podcast 00:02:07 Culture as bedrock: measure the inputs, not the score 00:05:30 Scaling culture when you’re hiring thousands 00:06:34 What PepTalk does: feedback from the field, and
Ep. 254 - Rob Hopewell: It’s Not a Bubble, and Your Phone Is a Data Center (Yes, That One) (opens the original)
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Rob Hopewell’s been in data centers so long I keep accusing him of starting at 11 — UUNET, EdgeConneX, now running QTS sales. We get into why this AI moment isn’t the dot-com bust, why the phone in your hand is a data center, and how our industry can finally explain itself. Chapters: 0:00 From UUNET to now — the early internet, peering, MAE East/West 5:44 “Unprecedented” — solving first-time problems (spiky AI load, the utility) 7:47 Selling power, not square feet — the model that changed the in
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