Did XAI somehow err in moving as quickly as it did? What I understand is that other companies, like Microsoft, Amazon, Google, that have a lot of experience doing data centers, have never used mobile generators in the way that was used in the XAI site, and I've heard people say, "Well, that's why Microsoft wouldn't have done it this way," that it is, in a way, a byproduct of how fast XAI was moving, and how fast the city allowed it to move.

Yeah.

Yeah.

Well, I ...

You know, I can't speak for other companies and, and what their timelines are.

I know, uh, XAI was aggressive, and if they could be aggressive and hit milestones doing so by the letter of the law, then that's what they did.

And AI is a race.

But if you were doing it, and you are doing it again, with Colossus 2, I'm curious, what would you do differently or how would you ask the company to do it differently?

And within days, he got word that Elon himself wanted to meet.

meet.It was incredibly thrilling.

Um, you know, you, you open up your, you know, in my case, my iPad, and the, uh, the boxes start to populate, you know, in the virtual meeting, and there, in the top left corner of my screen is Elon Musk, and it, it was a, a seminal moment.

It was pass or fail, right? Uh, someone like Mr.

Musk moves quickly.

He discerns information rapidly, and he was focused on making a decision very quickly.

So, I was told by his team to, you know, do your thing Ted.

Even before Ted had publicly announced the project, he remembers touring the construction site with Elon and being astounded at the rate of progress.