Oct 2, 2026 · 1 hr 4 min · 11 segments
As military operations' reliance on AI increased, the protection of data centres, which keep it functional, became a critical matter. Data centres concentrated in one geographical area pose…
Gregory BrookGuestHostHost
So, I mean, even most of the compute workloads that are done in Ukraine, you see are done in AWS data centers in Western Europe, which is also now becoming more and more of a vulnerability because let's be honest, the Germans are not particularly good at counter sabotage and espionage operations.
I get surprised
you got
these guys.
No, but I mean, this is actually exactly why we started our company, right? So fundamentally, and I'll send you the deck that we have, but fundamentally, the basic thesis is we built a lot of data center infrastructure over the past 30 years.
Now there's an explosion of that because everybody wants more for more compute and higher end workloads.
All of those data centers are being built and are being incredibly, and they just are incredibly vulnerable to attack, right? So two guys in a truck, could shut off the entire compute infrastructure of Loudoun County, Virginia, which is the entire compute infrastructure of the U.S.
Distributed compute, right? So the things you see on our website, fundamentally, our flagship project is called ACDC, Autonomous Combat Distributed Compute.
It comes from my experience in Ukraine, my understanding of strategy and military systems.
But the reason we're focusing on the maritime cases, it's the most pressing one for the U S military specifically.
So the idea here is if we end up fighting China, we are at a significant disadvantage in the context of where we are fighting.
Um, we are absolutely dependent on space-based communication infrastructure and, um, terrestrial compute nodes in the United States to be able to run AI workloads like Project Maven, like AI-enhanced command and control, counter-UXS, and autonomous swarm orchestration.
But I mean, when you're talking about edge, I always think about edge computers a little bit almost silly because we have these infantry soldiers carrying a backpack and they're going to do some edge compute or it's going to be on a little device.
So, I mean, even most of the compute workloads that are done in Ukraine, you see are done in AWS data centers in Western Europe, which is also now becoming more and more of a vulnerability because let's be honest, the Germans are not particularly good at counter sabotage and espionage operations.
I get surprised
you got
these guys.
No, but I mean, this is actually exactly why we started our company, right? So fundamentally, and I'll send you the deck that we have, but fundamentally, the basic thesis is we built a lot of data center infrastructure over the past 30 years.
Now there's an explosion of that because everybody wants more for more compute and higher end workloads.
All of those data centers are being built and are being incredibly, and they just are incredibly vulnerable to attack, right? So two guys in a truck, could shut off the entire compute infrastructure of Loudoun County, Virginia, which is the entire compute infrastructure of the U.S.
Distributed compute, right? So the things you see on our website, fundamentally, our flagship project is called ACDC, Autonomous Combat Distributed Compute.
It comes from my experience in Ukraine, my understanding of strategy and military systems.
But the reason we're focusing on the maritime cases, it's the most pressing one for the U S military specifically.
So the idea here is if we end up fighting China, we are at a significant disadvantage in the context of where we are fighting.
Um, we are absolutely dependent on space-based communication infrastructure and, um, terrestrial compute nodes in the United States to be able to run AI workloads like Project Maven, like AI-enhanced command and control, counter-UXS, and autonomous swarm orchestration.
But I mean, when you're talking about edge, I always think about edge computers a little bit almost silly because we have these infantry soldiers carrying a backpack and they're going to do some edge compute or it's going to be on a little device.
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