He’s Built Data Centers for 30 Years. He Says the AI Gold Rush Is Broken.

Pete Sacco is the founder and CEO of PTS Data Center Solutions, where he's spent nearly three decades designing and building AI infrastructure across millions of watts and square feet. His portfolio spans INTUVA, GRID7, and Gray Wolf Data Centers, decentralized, AI-optimized facilities he believes are the future of compute.

His argument: the industry's centralized, gigawatt-scale approach to AI infrastructure is hitting hard limits of power, land, and interconnect. The future isn't bigger, it's decentralized.

Topics we cover:

• Why the gigawatt hyperscale model is structurally failing
• Behind-the-meter power and why it changes the economics
• What 30 years of building for NASA and national labs taught him
• His book THE BRIDGE and what building AI infrastructure revealed about what matters more