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420 | Why Wisdom Is Your Last Competitive Advantage in the Age of AI | Pete Sacco
Pete Sacco has spent 30 years building the physical infrastructure — data centers, power systems, and hardware — that AI runs on. In this conversation, he argues the AI threat is overstated, not because it isn't transformative, but because it forces humans to reclaim what machines can't replicate: wisdom and discernment. Pete and Jeff dig into why founders need to embrace AI rather than fear it, the coming shift toward decentralized energy and compute, the misconceptions around data centers and water usage, how to separate real AI investment opportunities from hype, and his vision of a…
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