When systemic crisis hits, the winners aren\u2019t those with the best products\u2014but those who can sell fast to whoever needs it most.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Back in the 1960s, the U.S. paid 30 times the market price for semiconductors\u2014because the Minuteman missile program couldn\u2019t wait. That\u2019s how the industry that feeds today\u2019s Big Tech was born.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Today, Big Tech is the urgent buyer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Microsoft, Google, Amazon, and Meta are pouring money into nuclear energy. Not because they love the planet\u2014but because without it, they can\u2019t run AGI. And without AGI, they\u2019re just expensive hardware.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Western defense is so degraded that in a real conflict with China, the missiles would run out in days.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
China controls 87% of rare earths. The U.S. has no fallback. Europe faces a \u20ac250 billion annual deficit in equipment and infrastructure.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The world is turning into a chain of emergency purchases: from modular reactors and Atlantic cables to hurricane-predicting AIs in the Gulf.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Governments are throwing in trillions. Infrastructure is crumbling. Old corporations can\u2019t keep up. The winner is whoever can build and deliver right now.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
This isn\u2019t a startup sandbox. This is industrial capitalism in DEFCON 2 mode.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
In a world of urgent demand, it's not the best tech that wins\u2014it's the fastest seller. Why Big Tech is betting on nuclear and AGI.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"yoast_head":"\n