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Brought to you by Empirix Partners, trusted advisors for Mission Critical Procurement. Hosted by our CEO, Zachary Peña, The Watchtower explores how the supply-led approach to Mission Critical creates the best go-to-market advantage.
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(AUDIO) Garbage In, Garbage Out: What AI Actually Means for the Job Market (opens the original)
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In this recording, we’ll review: History's pattern of creative destruction: What the Industrial Revolution and the rise of the internet actually did to jobs, and why "destruction" and "creation" have always moved together The counterweight already forming- Early stage but real categories like prompt engineering, AI training and evaluation, cybersecurity, governance and compliance, and the infrastructure buildout behind it all Garbage in, garbage out: Why AI is only as good as the information beh
(AUDIO) Growth Never Stops: Investing in a Team That Will Carry the Company Forward (opens the original)
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Today, we ask a question most companies never stop to consider: what do you owe the people who help build your growth? Instead of treating investment in your team as a cost, we reframe it as the thing that makes firm growth possible— especially as a company shifts from founder-led to firm-led and why it matters more the bigger you get. In this recording, we’ll review: Why growth never stops: the mindset shift from "we made it" to treating every stage of the company as the next starting line Inve
(AUDIO) Building the Arena: Separating Fact from Fiction in Data Center Power Consumption (opens the original)
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Today, we explore one of the most contentious conversations in the data center market right now: power. Instead of arguing over whether AI is taking too much from the grid, we reframe the debate around a more useful question: how do we place a data center properly — and what benefits and contributions does it actually bring to the grid, the community, and the country? In this recording, we’ll review: The actual power constraint: is it generation, transmission, interconnection queues, or somethin
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