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⚡️ AI Data Centers⚡️ 🚨 Part 1: Building the AI Economy: Data Centers, Energy, Sovereign Compute & Open-Source AI 🚨 Special guest: Harsh 🚨
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- Blockchain DXB
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- Sep 2, 2026
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Follow Harsh on X: @kuroke01 Artificial intelligence is moving at extraordinary speed — but behind every AI model and application is a vast physical infrastructure requiring computing power, specialised hardware, electricity, cooling and storage. ⚡ In Part 1 of this three-part Blockchain DXB Podcast series , George sits down with Harsh, Founder of Gnostics Technologies , to break down the infrastructure powering the AI revolution and explain what an AI data center actually is. 🏢🤖 From GPUs and TPUs to energy consumption, scalability and sovereign AI infrastructure, this conversation takes a complex subject and makes it accessible for both newcomers and technology professionals. 💡 🔎 In this episode, we explore: 🤖 What an AI data center actually is 🧠 How AI works at a fundamental level 🔢 Why matrix multiplication is at the heart of modern AI ⚙️ Why GPUs have become essential to AI computing 💻 CPUs vs GPUs and the rise of specialised AI hardware 🚀 TPUs and the hardware powering large AI models ⚡ Why AI is creating an enormous demand for electricity ❄️ The growing challenge of cooling and sustainability 🏗️ The race for compute and increasingly powerful infrastructure 🔗 Why larger AI models require distributed computing 💾 Data, storage and the growing infrastructure requirements of AI 🌍 The physical-world limitations of today's AI systems 🤖 Robotics and the emergence of embodied AI 🏛️ Sovereign AI and the importance of local computing infrastructure 🛡️ Data center redundancy, resilience and high availability ₿ Why Bitcoin miners are increasingly exploring AI infrastructure 🌐 Whether AI data centers could become strategic national infrastructure 🔓 Why open-source and locally run AI could bring greater control to users We also explore an important connection between Bitcoin…