AI Ran Out of Power. This Startup Put Its Data Center in the Ocean.
In 1858, a group of investors spent today’s equivalent of $500 million to lay a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean. The cable worked for
May 15, 2026
In 1858, a group of investors spent today’s equivalent of $500 million to lay a telegraph cable across the Atlantic Ocean. The cable worked for
$48.8 billion. That’s the valuation Cerebras Systems will carry when it starts trading on the Nasdaq tomorrow. The order book closed 20 times oversubscribed. Wall
Every pitch deck in 2026 has the same slide. “AI agents are the future.” “We’re building the operating system for autonomous work.” “$52 billion market
Every founder I talk to still checks their Google ranking like it’s a vital sign. They obsess over keywords, backlinks, domain authority. They hire SEO
Every pitch deck I’ve reviewed in the last two years opens with the same slide: “AI is a trillion-dollar market.” Founders throw that number around
“I don’t want to be IBM and OpenAI to be Microsoft.” That’s Satya Nadella, in an internal email to his executive team. Not some speculative