Oct 5, 2026 · 37 min · 12 segments
Most AI initiatives stall when ambition outruns clarity. Dean Nelson outlines how leaders can reduce that risk by applying first principles, proving value through targeted use cases, then using each…
Dean, how are you? Good to see you again.
Doing great.
I think it was pretty much six years ago almost today where we were a little bit the elbow bumping during COVID.
Up on the Gold Coast, but here we are in Sydney now.
Great to have you back again as I like to think of you as a sort of global data center visionary joining us here at the ADAPT Cloud Infrastructure Edge event.
Seriously, great to have you back again.
Always well received and well anticipated as well.
And we just heard from you on stage delivering one of the, I guess, most exceptional keynotes of the day today.
Talk about lots of things.
I'm going to lean into one thing on that as we kind of talk through it.
And we've got a few other points to talk about as well, more on the technical side of things.
But one of the delegates kind of posed a question to you about how we can... overcome some of the social challenges we're facing right now with data centers in general.
And obviously, you know, coming from the States, there's been an awful lot of sort of coverage, negative and positive, around sort of data center builds within communities and so on.
And so I guess what the delegate was kind of asking was, you know, with all that sort of background and coming into Australia as part of iMasons, of course, what would be the kind of one thing you'd say to, you know, Australia right now in terms of It's kind of making sense of it a little bit more and maybe getting it beyond the hysteria, if you like, in many ways that we're seeing.
I think
Dean, how are you? Good to see you again.
Doing great.
I think it was pretty much six years ago almost today where we were a little bit the elbow bumping during COVID.
Up on the Gold Coast, but here we are in Sydney now.
Great to have you back again as I like to think of you as a sort of global data center visionary joining us here at the ADAPT Cloud Infrastructure Edge event.
Seriously, great to have you back again.
Always well received and well anticipated as well.
And we just heard from you on stage delivering one of the, I guess, most exceptional keynotes of the day today.
Talk about lots of things.
I'm going to lean into one thing on that as we kind of talk through it.
And we've got a few other points to talk about as well, more on the technical side of things.
But one of the delegates kind of posed a question to you about how we can... overcome some of the social challenges we're facing right now with data centers in general.
And obviously, you know, coming from the States, there's been an awful lot of sort of coverage, negative and positive, around sort of data center builds within communities and so on.
And so I guess what the delegate was kind of asking was, you know, with all that sort of background and coming into Australia as part of iMasons, of course, what would be the kind of one thing you'd say to, you know, Australia right now in terms of It's kind of making sense of it a little bit more and maybe getting it beyond the hysteria, if you like, in many ways that we're seeing.
I think
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