No AGI Without New Infrastructure
Cognition at scale demands substations, supply chains, and sovereign backends
1. Boca Chica, Meet Mountain View
On a wind‑scoured spit of scrubland outside Brownsville, Texas, Elon Musk built a launch factory he christened Starbase. Visitors expecting a NASA‑style campus, with hermetically-sealed clean rooms and slow bureaucratic rituals, are startled. The place feels less like Cape Canaveral and more like Pittsburgh circa 1905: h…