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#410 - Speed to Market: Why Decision-Making Velocity Beats Everything in Mega Projects
In this episode, Dillon dives into what it really takes to run an engineering firm working on mega projects like data centers. He explores the massive challenges around procurement, lead times, and electrical gear shortages in today's infrastructure boom—and reveals why the biggest bottleneck isn't design or labor, it's decision-making speed.
Using XAI's rapid data center build as a case study, Dillon breaks down how Elon Musk's team achieved what seemed impossible: a 100,000 GPU cluster built in record time. The secret? Eliminating procurement bureaucracy and empowering people to say "yes"…
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