Hosts: Lenar Kess, Damra Vol. Today’s episode follows AI infrastructure into its physical contracts: gas-fired power in West Texas, water claims from Nvidia, local backlash against data centers, export controls, enterprise rollouts, and the strange new place where coding agents meet private equity diligence.The Wall Street Journal on Chevron and Microsoft reported a 20-year gas-fired power agreement for a proposed West Texas AI data center, which turns compute capacity into a named energy project.Axios on Nvidia’s water claim adds the cooling side of the constraint, with Nvidia arguing that next-generation systems can reduce data center water use.Axios on data center backlash and Gallup’s local-opposition polling show that data centers are becoming the public face of AI anxiety.The Associated Press on China’s restrictions explains Beijing’s new export-control and procurement moves against U.S. defense-linked firms.OpenAI’s Samsung announcement and Getty Images’ OpenAI display partnership show OpenAI signing the enterprise and content agreements that make AI products usable inside institutions.The Financial Times on Bain’s AI replicas points to a new diligence test for software companies: can a buyer approximate the product quickly enough to question the moat?
